Two successful interviews within the last 2 weeks and I now have 2 offers on the table basically, just awaiting the formal paperwork to read through and pick which suits my long term goals the best. Didn't expect to be in this position but sometimes things seem to work out I guess.
I currently work for BAE, one of the offers is at BAE so would effectively be an internal transfer and the role itself appears to be be the same sort of thing I've been doing since October as an interim responsibility (basically doing 2 roles for the salary of one lol) so learned it with no previous knowledge and turned it around for the better. The upshot with this is that there's no extra faff involved, I accept the offer and I transfer over right away, HR do the rest behind the scenes. There's good career progression in the new role too but it's also fast moving so I'd be able to learn a lot. It's also a grade higher in salary and I was asked what salary I was looking for as a minimum before recruitment team sent the app to the hiring manager, so the fact that they offered me the interview means they have accepted the salary I was asking for, and now that the interview has been a success, I just need to see if they formally offer the figure I asked, or they punch it up a bit as the grade has a wide margin.
The other interview was for the mod, so defence sector again but a different type of role. It's much closer to home, so I'd be walking 15 minutes door to door vs the 1hr it currently takes me. It is lower salary, but again the grading has a margin, so once an offer is made, I'd be looking to then negotiate the salary.
It's a tricky position because I need to decide which one offers the best potential for my growth. Mod has strong pensions long term, but BAE has higher salaries, with scope to move around regularly internally and get higher pay more often too. I currently work 2 days in office and 3 days from home, the new roles would need more days in office from both places, with the option once settled to work out a hybrid situation. The Mod one also has the flexibility to do a 4 day working week if I wanted to do the 37 hours over 4 days for example, and both have flexi hours anyway. Both offers have good managers as well having spent some time with them and I have had taster days with the BAE role too and been told that if I feel it's right for me, then to make the call basically.
As usual, HR teams from both time ages to get back to you on stuff lol, seems universal at the speed these departments operate. I applied to Mod in March as an example, and only now have this news. No 2nd interviews needed.
With BAE, I have the shares incentive plan I'm a part of, and that's really quite ;lucrative, as well as the yearly bonuses and payments we get anyway, so money wise the logic in the noodle says stay, but Mod offers other benefits too. I need to list out the pros and cons of both this weekend and decide!
A good line manager will help promote your skills and develop you as an individual, and if after what you learn/attain through that progression you wish to move on as that's what's best for you, then they will support that too, luckily both manager's from both places appear to be that way minded, and they both said they really hope that an individual will remain and put their new skills to use within the business, but they can't hold it against someone for choosing an external offer as well if that's what's right for them.
Decisions decisions....
