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COACHING TOOLS
The Job Wheel
Use this tool to help you evaluate a job offer
The Job Wheel
I created the Job Wheel as a simple tool to help you assess a job offer. When used with the Identity Wheel, it allows you to evaluate a job opportunity or offer in the context of what’s important to you. Without it, many biases can impact your decision-making, which you could later regret.
The Wheel considers a job in seven dimensions and allows you to evaluate all opportunities and offers using your existing and ideal roles as evaluation guides. It’s not perfect, but it’s effective.
Once you start your job hunt, you will use this wheel to evaluate jobs and determine whether they are right for you.
What’s in the Job Wheel?
The Job Wheel has seven segments:
Long-Term Objectives
How does this job help you meet your long-term objectives? If you want to set up a business offering landscape gardening, is being a reporting analyst helping you? It’s not as obvious an answer as you might think, as good working conditions such as hybrid working may give you time back in your day to develop a side gig, leading to your objective.
Salary
How well does this job meet your salary needs? Remember when thinking about this that salary needs differ at different stages of life. As a Secondhalfer, your salary needs may not be as high, and you’d rather trade off extra holidays, for example. However, keep this in mind if your salary needs are high.
Benefits
For many people, benefits are as important as salary.
Benefits may include holidays, pensions, private health care, training allowances, flexible working, work-from-home and the ability to commute or leave on time. Consider this carefully — would you prefer a pay rise or a pay cut but a guaranteed pension? Flexible working or additional holiday?
