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Job Offer Comparison

Weighted criteria, one comparison sheet and real evidence on pay, equity, growth, culture, commute and stability, so you choose between job offers, or staying put, on purpose.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Job Offer Comparison, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Job Offer Comparison

Comparing job offers on pay, equity, growth, culture, commute and stability so the decision matches long-term career goals.

  1. Non-negotiables and deal-breakers for your next job
  2. Weighted criteria for comparing offers
  3. Scoring your current job as the baseline option
  4. Checklist of offer details to get in writing
  5. Side-by-side offer comparison sheet
  6. Offer deadlines and decision timeline map
  7. Five-year direction test for each offer
  8. Take-home pay and monthly budget check per offer
  9. Household conversation about the offers
  10. Final-round and offer status board
  11. Quarterly stay-or-go scorecard on your current job
  12. Watchlist of employers you would leave for
  13. Screening recruiter approaches against your criteria
  14. Insider contacts at employers you might join
  15. Employer health watchlist
  16. Equity, bonus and vesting calendar
  17. Lessons file from past job decisions
  18. First six months check against your decision
  19. Reading notice, probation and restrictive covenant terms
  20. Valuing equity in an offer for comparison
  21. Decision biases that distort job choices
  22. Researching a company's financial health
  23. Reading a culture from outside the building
  24. Back-channel check on your future manager
  25. Comparing pension and benefits schemes
  26. Assessing growth and learning in each role
  27. Mapping titles and levels across companies
  28. Commute and working pattern trial run
  29. Remote, hybrid and office offers compared
  30. Stability and downside risk comparison
  31. Questions to ask before you decide
  32. Tie-breaker methods for offers that score close
  33. Written decision record for the offer you accept
  34. Offer call debrief within 24 hours
  35. Meeting the team before you accept
  36. Asking other employers to speed up after an offer
  37. Asking for more time on an exploding offer
  38. Offer comparison review with a trusted adviser
  39. Declining the offers you turn down
  40. First job offers as a graduate
  41. Offers for parents and carers
  42. Dual-career couple weighing two sets of offers
  43. Offers that involve relocating
  44. Choosing an offer after a layoff
  45. Contract versus permanent offers
  46. Offers in the last decade before retirement
  47. Startup versus established company offer
  48. Public sector versus private sector offers
  49. Executive offer due diligence on mandate and board
  50. Five-year scenario model of two career paths

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Non-negotiables and deal-breakers for your next job

Before the first offer lands, decide the three to five conditions you will not trade, such as a pay floor, a maximum commute or no weekend on-call. Written down in a calm week, they stop a flattering offer call from talking you out of what you already knew mattered. They also make declining a poor fit quick and guilt-free.

First tasks

  • Write down the three worst things about your last two jobs
  • Turn each into a measurable limit, such as a commute in minutes
  • Cut the list to five and move the rest to preferences
  • Reread and revise the non-negotiables list @recurring(yearly)

Weighted criteria for comparing offers

Pay, growth, culture, commute and stability rarely point the same way, and without weights the most recent or loudest factor wins. Giving each criterion a share of 100 points before you see the offers turns a tangle of impressions into a score you can argue with. Weights set in advance are also harder to bend toward the answer you secretly want.

First tasks

  • List every factor that has made you happy or unhappy at work
  • Group the factors into eight to twelve criteria
  • Spread 100 points across the criteria
  • Describe what a low, middle and top score looks like for each one
  • Revisit the weights after any big change at home or work @recurring(yearly)

Scoring your current job as the baseline option

Every offer is really a comparison with staying put, yet the current job is the option people forget to score. Rating it on the same weighted criteria, honestly and on a normal week rather than a bad one, shows how big a jump an offer has to be to justify the cost and risk of moving.

First tasks

  • Score your current job on each weighted criterion
  • Ask a colleague who left recently how they would score it
  • Note what you would lose by leaving, from friendships to unpaid bonus
  • Set the margin an offer must clear to be worth the move

Make it yours.

Install Job Offer Comparison, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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