Rick Maher’s Professional Notes

Yes, I long ago accepted a job offer, but none the less… A site like RickMaher.info just begs a resume.

As such, you can now browse over to http://rickmaher.info/resume/ to see if you think you might want to hire me!

Eventually I will get around to putting up more of an “About” page with a little bit simpler bio, but for now if you want to get to know the less professional me, click on over to http://rickmaher.com.

This is the final post of a three part series. Check out all three posts regarding the post interview job hunt process:

1. How To: Compare Job Offers
2. How To: Negotiate Salary Out Of College
3. How To: Accept and Decline Job Offers

When faced with the opportunity to accept and or decline job offers, excitement and haste can easily come over people. If you are reading this, than you likely have avoided at least the haste… good job.

Follow a few simple steps when accepting or declining a job offer and you can score big points with your future employer or possible further down the road future employer. After all, you should look at all current job offers as a potential lead on a job offer in the future if you are declining them now.

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This is the second of a three part series. Check out all three posts regarding the post interview job hunt process:

1. How To: Compare Job Offers
2. How To: Negotiate Salary Out Of College
3. How To: Accept and Decline Job Offers

Great, you are graduating from college soon and have a (some?) job offers already lined up.Do you feel like because you are getting a job straight out of college and have limited experience that you are a dime a dozen? If so, I think I can convince you otherwise and prove to you that you can (and should) be demanding a top rate in terms of your job offers.

The key to being able to actually do this is to be prepared. Here are a few things that helped me increase my offers by an average of 19% on first year salary + signing bonus alone!

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This is the first of a three part series. Check out all three posts regarding the post interview job hunt process:

1. How To: Compare Job Offers
2. How To: Negotiate Salary Out Of College
3. How To: Accept and Decline Job Offers

If you are reading this, congratulations! Aren’t choices great?

Actually, if you are anything like me, than you’re probably thinking this is a bittersweet circumstance. Of course it is great to know that you are wanted by more than one company, but at the same time, the rest of your life is on the line, and generally this is going to be a tough decision.

With some careful and logical thought, you can make this decision and know that you made the best decision you possibly could. After going pulling my hair out trying to narrow my decision in my head alone I realized that I had to go about this using a methodical process. I think you may also benefit from this process, so read on to see how I did it.

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