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Written by Alex Mann
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When you are offered a new job, even if it seems to be your dream job, it’s always the benefits package that should influence your final decision. The benefits package shows how much a company is ready to invest in its employees and, as well, offers you a certain security.
- The first step is to decide what benefits to look for. Look at your current situation to identify the benefits that provide you the most advantages.
- Health insurance and retirement savings programs should be the most important if you have a family while stock options or bonus programs should be important for a single person who’s looking just to earn more money.
- Besides permanent jobs, contract jobs are now available. It will allow you to earn more money, but usually they offer poor benefits packages. You’ll have to save a certain amount each month in case something happens. You shouldn’t chose a contract job if you have children as the few benefits they offer are not family oriented.
- Permanent jobs usually offer lower wages but the benefits can cover most of your family’s needs.
- Once you have managed to identify the benefits that you want in order to cover your needs, you must find out, among other things, if your doctor accepts the medical insurance you are offered, if the retirement plan offer you enough security, if the life insurance is high enough, etc.
- If you discover that the benefits do not entirely cover your expenses, you have to calculate what sum you’ll have to put aside each month to compensate for the poor benefits package.
- If you’re not happy with the benefits package, you may either counter-offer or decline the job offer.
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