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Career Moves - How do you assess a job offer?
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Career Moves - How do you assess a job offer?

First thing is to consider how important those pros and cons are to you.

Salary - Are you taking say 20k now at the cost of 100k p.a. for a decade in 10 years time? (More on this with the 2nd point of consideration).
Commute - This one is a positive unless that commute is a particularly productive time for you that you'd struggle to recreate in that extra free time.
Travel - Double edged sword. Will you get to actually see the places you go or will you just be replacing that gained commute time by sitting in airports, stuck in hotels and the like. Work travel can be substantially different to how you think it will be. Always good for those frequent traveler miles though that can be used elsewhere!
Client Facing - Same story, do you want to do this? Clients can make the job great but they can also make it terrible.

Smaller - Not necessarily bad, sometimes can mean easier promotion, better ownership potential, more responsibility and the like. Can of course mean all the opposite as well, would need a good feel for whether this will be a negative or not.
Co-Workers - Ditto, could well be better. That said, in a smaller firm one or two changes can really impact office dynamics a lot more.
Female Manager - No positive here, even if she's one of the good ones that allegedly exist, it's still going to be a pain in the ass.

Second point to consider of course is whether this offer gives you leverage at your current company. If those pros are what you're seriously seeking then perhaps you can go to your manager now and say "look, I've got an offer that's going to pay me substantially more than you guys are and is a role I'd much rather do, is there any chance of you guys matching it". This depends on basically whether you're a valued member, whether you have leverage, whether those roles exist, etc. It can be a good way to eliminate the cons and still get at least some of the pros. Basically if your pro/con analysis says you'd take the other job then you've got nothing to lose by trying to remove the cons and get the pros anyway and if they say no then you thank them politely and take the other job. Important to make it clear "that you've been approached" for the other job, don't leave them thinking that you're out there looking for jobs (unless you want them to think that for some reason).
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