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Questions About Relocation

If accepting a job offer necessitates moving to a new community, you
need to determine what moving expenses your employer will pay. The
most generous can include the cost of shipping your household goods to
the new community; a per diem to cover hotel accommodations and food
for travel days and perhaps a week or two after arrival in the new
community while waiting for your household shipment to arrive; a
portion of the closing costs on the home you are buying in the commu-
nity; and even a guaranteed sale of your house in the community you are
leaving. However, as the economy tightens, you are likely to find fewer
employers able or willing to subsidize your move to this extent and more
and more job applicants willing to accept employment without these
subsidies. In many cases, all the expenses of a community move may be
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yours to pay. But whatever the case, you need to have a clear understand-
ing of who will pay which expenses before you decide whether to accept
the job.
Be sure you have a realistic estimate of the cost of living in the new
community before you accept a position as well as prior to negotiating
your salary. What appears to be a large salary increase over your present
or most recent previous job may actually be the equivalent to a cut in pay
if you are moving from a town in the midwest to southern California,
New York City, Boston, or the Washington, CC metropolitan area.
For more information on questions to ask at a job interview, see
Richard Fein’s 101 Dynamite Questions to Ask At Your Job Interview
(Impact Publications).

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