Why Delaying Offers Can Turn-Off Employers
[00:00:00] I'm still applying to employers in my primary market of choice, but recently got an offer from an employer in a different market. In my future applications, should I let the employers know that I'm holding an offer from an employer? If so, should that information go into the cover letter, just an email, whether it's separate email or email application with my materials? Is it rude to let them know I have an offer that will expire on a certain date and hope to reach a decision before the offer expires.
Law firms don't like that. You want to tell them you're still applying to employers in your primary market. You don't want to put that down. Law firms, don't like feeling pressured.
They want to be in control. So when you start doing things like that, you're assuming control, and then they just push you away. I've had that experience before. Sometimes, if they'd like you and you really connect with the employer and you go in and interview and they add, let us know if you have another offer or something along those lines.
I would recommend if you did get an offer, be very careful because the longer you delay accepting any offer, the more the employer is going to know that they're not your first choice or there's something that's wrong about them.
And they're going to be a little bit hesitant to get really invested in you and give you a lot of work and that sort of thing. And it's not [00:01:00] always the case, but certainly if you just have an offer, you're sending a message about that. There may be some issues with them. So I would be careful if, I don't know why one markets, one choice or another for you.
But if you're a young attorney then you know you may want to go to the largest market and get the most complex work, or you may want to go to the best firm. You can and get the most complex work there. I really don't know what you're doing, but if you don't want to work in a certain market, then you just shouldn't you shouldn't ever take a job that you don't think you're going to have. In the future because you're just not serving yourself and you're not serving them. So if you want ?To be in a certain market, you should try to continue to get jobs there. The legal market's huge. There's tens of thousands of law firms in the country, so you should be able to get a job in the market you want to so I would be very careful about that.
