Job Offer - Can They Do This?

[prncess674]

Yeah no..I was a technology professional and we were hiring upper level (like me Lead level) professionals for the job. These were not entry level positions and I can say that I never saw them go 4-5 weeks in negotiations and yes during an interview it was pretty up front. Maybe the bottom line was that they didn't negotiate much to begin with. As I also mentioned we generally had a top 3 set of very qualified candidates and if one wasn't interested they moved on to the next. Tech was a highly competitive field at least at my company and from about 2001 on it was an employers job market as jobs got very tight when outsourcing started to increase greatly.

I put techs as a support position. If there are 3 people lined up, the skill is probably a commodity and the "skill" is only worth X and there is no need to offer or negotiate since there are 3 more people with comparable skills who will do just fine.

Jobs that drive new business or develop new products, are what I consider "rainmaker" jobs, have a lot of negotiation, but with the power of negotiation also comes the risk of crashing and burning in a position. If you are negotiating $$$ jobs, then you better be really good and be able to deliver high value to the company in a cut throat up or out role.


The OP is looking for an entry level job, there is absolutely no reason to keep "mulling it over" for no apparent reason. I understand taking a day or two to talk it over with a spouse/friend/relative, but unless the OP has some very in demand skill (not likely since she has no other offers) then she needs to make a decision.