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Wife has a job offer but wants to wait for a better higher paying job. How can she hold off the job offer?

  • My wife has been looking for a job for the past 6 months with no success. She now has the opposite problem. She had an interview with a job and it went really well. While waiting for this job to call her back another opportunity came up. She interviewed and it went very well. She has made it through all the hiring process and is now waiting for a call. The first job interview has since called her back and made her an offer. She wants to wait for the other job as it will pay much more and allow her to work at home. We just had a baby so the 2nd job would be more ideal. The 2nd opportunity said they can take up to a couple of weeks to make a decision. She had a recommendation and from what her friend is telling her she pretty much has the job. It's not guaranteed and we don't want to miss out on this first job if this for some reason doesn't work out. How do we go about handling this situation? We don't want her to take the job and then quite as soon if the other one works out.

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    Make up a vacation or some other reason why she can't start immediately. There is no nice way to do this without losing the first and firm offer of a job.

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There are a couple of options ranging from ideal to just left of ethical: 1. If you have not told offer #1 that you are finishing up your interview process and need to before you can make a decision, you can do this. Know that they can pull the offer at anytime for any reason. So if you do this in a way that makes them believe they are not your first choice, that's exactly what will happen. If you tell them that you want to make a solid decision, that they are your first choice but that you would always be second guessing if you don't finalize this process, it's probably your best bet. 2. You can let offer #2 know that you have an offer in hand, but that they are your first choice based on everything you know. You can explain that you understand that their decision process may take time, and you ultimately are willing to wait but any indication would really help. You need to let them know that you are not saying this to leverage anything, but just to be honest about your process, as you know they are about theirs. Reiterate that as things stand now if they were to make you an offer you would end your process completely and commit to them. 3. (left of ethical) You can take the job from offer #1 and not say a thing to them about your second offer. If and when offer #2 comes in, you let offer #1 know you are quitting as you have had an unforeseen circumstance and need to leave. Let them know that you had every intention of staying (because you did when you took the job because you had no other offer) but that you feel it's not fair to stay on when you know that you will ultimately be leaving.

Make up a vacation or some other reason why she can't start immediately. There is no nice way to do this without losing the first and firm offer of a job.

There are a couple of options ranging from ideal to just left of ethical: 1. If you have not told offer #1 that you are finishing up your interview process and need to before you can make a decision, you can do this. Know that they can pull the offer at anytime for any reason. So if you do this in a way that makes them believe they are not your first choice, that's exactly what will happen. If you tell them that you want to make a solid decision, that they are your first choice but that you would always be second guessing if you don't finalize this process, it's probably your best bet. 2. You can let offer #2 know that you have an offer in hand, but that they are your first choice based on everything you know. You can explain that you understand that their decision process may take time, and you ultimately are willing to wait but any indication would really help. You need to let them know that you are not saying this to leverage anything, but just to be honest about your process, as you know they are about theirs. Reiterate that as things stand now if they were to make you an offer you would end your process completely and commit to them. 3. (left of ethical) You can take the job from offer #1 and not say a thing to them about your second offer. If and when offer #2 comes in, you let offer #1 know you are quitting as you have had an unforeseen circumstance and need to leave. Let them know that you had every intention of staying (because you did when you took the job because you had no other offer) but that you feel it's not fair to stay on when you know that you will ultimately be leaving.

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