What type of Job Offer to Accept during this economy?

[FutureSpartan]

im trying to get a part time job as a prep chef or possibly train to be a main chef at a hibachi. my best friend was a hibachi chef until he passed away. its pretty neat and the pay is decent for a part time job.

any idea's for landing an accounting position. i have more management skills but there are far more accounting positions and i have an internship in accounting.

If you can try to get involved with your school's career services. Often times it is here accounting firms and companies seeking staff accountants recruit most of their new hires.

You have an accounting internship which helps to overcome your weak GPA. Also look to get your CPA designation if you can put in the time. Accounting is still doing relatively well compared to other industries. I say this with worry because it seems people are now flooding the accounting and nursing field as a safe harbor which could end up glutting the labor market and driving down salaries.

Hope this helps and good luck!

 

[AAAgent]

Sales position 100% commision based (firm offer)

0-100k

Declined

im awaiting a new offer for the plant manager position(open offer)

35k+

im waiting to hear back for the Project coordinator position with the Doctors network. (soft offer)

40k+

And im still in the running for an accounting position that i should hear back from next week. They are looking to hire after the first interview so this may be a possible option.(nothing)

43-47k+

Let's see what i end up with. I'm in no situation to delay anything much longer than a 1-3 weeks.

 

[AAAgent]

well i just got an interview with a consulting firm in NYC. this is for a project associate position and most like pays anywhere between 45k-60k. The best interview/position so far. The interview is next thursday so im not sure what to do since that would only be the first round.

I'm still waiting on the new offer for the plant manager position which should be any day now. I'm also awaiting my 3rd interview for with the doctors group which also should be any day now. I'm awaiting to see if i got the accounting job interview or not which also should be any day now.

I want to try for the NYC position but i will most likely lose the definate job i have as plant manager. That position pays 35k. it may have holiday work, more hours than normal, a 4:30am wake up time, and not much advancement. The pro's will be i will definately have a job but i just won't like it that much. If i hold out a little bit longer, i might get an offer from the doctors group which should be a little bit more than 35k. If i take a major gamble i could get a job in NYC which gets me out of philly where i've been my whole life and away from my family which im dying to get away from. but the end of next week is only the phone interview, i will probably have atleast 1-2 more interviews after that and i might not get the job.

knowing my own personality i always will choose what i want. sometimes to the point it turns into greed but since my first job will direct where my future goes i figured its important to choose the right one anyway. on the other hand i do need money but i just started a part time job.

opinions or what you would do?

 

[mpimpin]

Might be hard to live off that much in NYC

 

[synergy1]

Might be hard to live off that much in NYC

I wouldn't want to live off that in Boston, let alone NYC which is supposedly a more costly standard of living.

 

[AAAgent]

i think if the position was in nyc i would take it even if it paid me 40k but i don't see how they would hire an employee that they expect to keep fulltime in the longterm/train without compensating them enough to live close.

45k would be minimum but most of my friends that have started with entry level position in nyc are making 55k with bonus incentives of 10k and sign on bonuses. but they tell me 55k is enough to live and save a tiny bit.

 

[AAAgent]

i'm not perfect but i believe i have gotten a lot better at interviewing. I do mess up but i do know generally how to pull off a good interview. When i do mess up, its usually because i try too hard to impress or i just get nervous and flustered about a question but i have been getting better especially recently.

As for what i have to offer my employers. I truly believe that i will be a great asset to any company i enter and when i sell myself i actually mean it and i'm not bsing. I may not be the smartest guy that's knows all the answers but i know how and what to do to find them, I'm open minded and don't like to trap myself thoughts inside a box, and lastly i know everyone makes mistakes and when i do make one i don't hold it against myself but instead i learn from it and won't do it again. I'm not saying i'm going to make mistakes all the time either, i tend to try not to.

As for the salary negotiation. I'm clearly not an idiot and i understand that this economy is tough. Negotiating isn't exactly the best thing to do at this time. When i did reject my offer and sent the company a counter offer it was because i clearly deserved a lot more than what they were offering. Not only is that position long grueling hours but it requires holiday/weekend work occasionally, has me standing in 30-35 degree freezing temperatures, but also requires that i speak both mandarin and cantonese dialects. It has little to no advancement and at $15 an hour only offers a meager $31,200. For an experienced manager and the amount of responsibility required in that position i feel significantly underpaid. If they can find somebody that speaks both main chinese dialects fluenty and willing to work as a plant manager for 30k a year under those circumstances than more power to them. $30k a year i don't think i would be making anything after bills and taxes.

As for the way your whole response was structured, the devils advocate role. I've thought many times about all those things but you win some and you lose some. I believe I am worthy of all the things i said in the previous posts so why should i settle for less if i can get more. I don't like to place blame on anything so if i can't find a higher paying job its because i didn't look hard enough.

I go after what i want and if i don't get it, then oh well. I'll just move on to the next closest thing i want or possibly in the future something better will come around but i hate that feeling of not knowing if i could have gotten something or not.

What i gauged about entry level(similar to internships) positions are that they are looking for two types of people.

the first type is someone with skill, a brain, and willingness to work.

The second type is a person they can get along with since they will be stuck with them.

Usually you get the interview because you have the skills and the rest is about capitalizing on your skills and showing them that your more interesting, more fun, and just plain easy to get along with. Who cares if you graduated from NYU and your competing against a harvard grad. If you co-workers hate you, it will effect work ethic and that work ethic will effect the company's outcome. If you get an interview i'm assuming they think your capable already, the rest is to see if they actually like you or not. Not whether you come from an ivy league school or not. Connections do make a difference but i prefer to get things on my own if i can.