permisssion to contactI was unjustly terminated from my last position .. let' s say due to a change in management... anyway ... I was offered a new job, accepted it, and now the next day I received a call that they want permission to contact my current employer (when I told the interviewer I was no longer employed there). What should I say? I honestly want to say NO ... but am very confused about this ... or should I tell them I am no longer employed there? When I last called this X-employer about COBRA payments, the clerk didn' t even have my records yet ... I think I will have a friend call and pretend to be an employer doing a search to see what they say... Any suggestions are welcome as I don' t want to keep them hanging more than a day or two. Did they say they wanted to contact this one specifically or could you use a different employer for them to call? I would just tell them that due to the new management the people cleaned house and brought their own people in and that he really didn' t work with you for that long or something like that. They had to have had on the application if you wanted to let them contact employer or not and if you checked no then that' s it. I doubt they would pull the job offer just due to that fact. They wouldn' t have made it first (or shouldn' t have in my mind) Good luck I did have a friend call to verify employment, and it is all computerized with dates and salary, so I told the new employer to go ahead and do their checks. I am pretty confident it will be ok. I wish I had negotiated for more $$, and adhered to your recommendations to go 10% higher in the counter offer. They say the came in lower because they gave me a company car, blackberry and GPS. I have another interview that I am going to go on before this job starts and may be able to use that as leverage. I also know they wanted me desperately since they offered me the job 2 hours after the interview. I only increased the offered salary 2%. Any advise how to increase salary after already accepted? Thanks again! That must have been someone else that said the 10 percent above offer sorry. But again forgive me here, but I have never heard of such things as negotiating vacation, negotiating salary, etc - clal me old school or whatever but isn' t anyone just happy that they got a JOB period and not all the time jockeying for something better ? Sorry but it just seems that a company car, a blackberry and a gps and full time employment is more than enough - I guess I just have never had the nerve to negotiate anything. Must just be either the time I grew up in or the area I lived in, whatever, we were just wanting to go to work and weren' t all that worried about all the perks I only increased the offered salary 2%. Any advise how to increase salary after already accepted? They offered, you countered, they accepted. Now, it is the end of negotiations and the beginning of working. But look at the extras you get. Car, GPS, Blackberry....can you use these items for non-work related trips? These three material items are a heck of a lot more than the majority of people who work get for the sole purpose of work related activities. Do you get health Insurance? Dental? Vision? 401K? Retirement? I think you should consider yourself fortunate and wait a year until your first performance review before trying for another 2% or even 5%. I think 10% will probably be a bit much unless you have brought 125% annual increase into the company. | |
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