Ten Questions I Wish I'd Asked Before I Took The Job

Anybody can understand why a job-seeker might choose to be extremely flexible and accommodating when they’re considering a job offer.

It’s exciting to be offered a job. Somebody wants you to come and work for them. If you need a job to pay next month’s rent, you might think “The last thing I want to do is make these folks uncomfortable by asking too many questions!”

Anybody can understand why you’d feel that way, but you will learn a painful lesson if you neglect to ask these ten critical questions before you accept a job offer.

You simply have to know the parameters of the assignment you’re about to accept. If you take the position and only then find out that they expect you to work every other Saturday for no pay and that showing up two minutes late to work will get you put on probation, you’ll wish you had asked more questions earlier!

If your fearful brain tells you “Don’t make waves!” and you accept the job without asking these questions, any number of snakes will be lined waiting to bite you. By the time the first snake bites, you’ll be ensconced in the job.

Will you be willing to quit your job because you learned a few weeks or months too late that one or more of the working conditions of  the job was unacceptable or downright insulting?

You could find yourself wishing you had kept your job search going a little longer, especially if you had other irons in the fire when you jumped at the first job offer you received.