Hi,
I was interviewed by a Consultancy for the post of Team Leader Recruitment. After negotiation over the phone we came to a conclusion and agreed on the offer. I asked her to send me the offer through email and she sent a mail but without the CTC mentioned in it. I asked her about it but she said she cannot send me the offer thru mail. So i said i accept it and i can come to collect it. She then said she will mail it to me. After 4 days she sent me a mail and the offer was attached but on a Plain Word document and not on the Company Letterhead. when i asked her about the offer letter on letterhead she said consider this as official communication. Also, she insisted on me resigning first and only then sent the letter. What should i do? I have not resigned yet as the company looks dicy.
Please suggest.
From India, Mumbai
I was interviewed by a Consultancy for the post of Team Leader Recruitment. After negotiation over the phone we came to a conclusion and agreed on the offer. I asked her to send me the offer through email and she sent a mail but without the CTC mentioned in it. I asked her about it but she said she cannot send me the offer thru mail. So i said i accept it and i can come to collect it. She then said she will mail it to me. After 4 days she sent me a mail and the offer was attached but on a Plain Word document and not on the Company Letterhead. when i asked her about the offer letter on letterhead she said consider this as official communication. Also, she insisted on me resigning first and only then sent the letter. What should i do? I have not resigned yet as the company looks dicy.
Please suggest.
From India, Mumbai
Dear Kary,
Your decision is right.
You should speak to the lady in person and take the hard copy of offer letter if she cant mail it to you.
Tell her that you cant resign untill and unless she provides the same.
From India, Pune
6Your decision is right.
You should speak to the lady in person and take the hard copy of offer letter if she cant mail it to you.
Tell her that you cant resign untill and unless she provides the same.
From India, Pune
Hi Kary,
Many SMBs do not give offer letters with CTC as candidates misuse it (by negotiating for a higher pay with some other company).
Even in my company, we just extend the offer over email and though we used to handover the appointment letter on the first day, when we had an experience of people absconding, we started issuing appointment letter after 1 week time.
In your case,
Ask for the appointment letter.
Make sure appointment letter is on the letter head and has sign of the CEO or the responsible person in your office.
Offer Letter and Appointment Letter are two different things. Offer Letter is the Letter of Intent to Hire you. This letter is issued by the company and it states they wish to hire you for so and so designation with so and so salary as discussed in the interview on so and so date. Candidate can accept or reject the offer. Acceptance of offer do not make a formal relationship of employer-employee. For that an appointment letter has to be given which states the designation of the employee, date of join, department, salary break up, certain rules and procedure, etc.
Also note that appointment letter is always in duplicate (2 copies) You need to sign a duplicate copy and hand it over to the employer for their records.
When you accept or sign the appointment letter you will have to abide by the terms and conditions of the company.
SInce you have not been given any appointment letter, you should ask your manager to give you one.
If incase you wish to leave the firm, convey the same in writing to the manager stating your last day of working.
This is so that you should not fall in the bad books.
When you say your boss is insisting you to resign first so that she can give you a letter, ask her to explain you why she wants you to resign and ask her to do so over the mail. And tell her, since you do not have an appointment letter, you are not liable to resign and cover a notice period. But ensure you do so early next month after you get your pay check else she would not pay you a penny for your month....
Hope it helped :-)
From India, Mumbai
Many SMBs do not give offer letters with CTC as candidates misuse it (by negotiating for a higher pay with some other company).
Even in my company, we just extend the offer over email and though we used to handover the appointment letter on the first day, when we had an experience of people absconding, we started issuing appointment letter after 1 week time.
In your case,
Ask for the appointment letter.
Make sure appointment letter is on the letter head and has sign of the CEO or the responsible person in your office.
Offer Letter and Appointment Letter are two different things. Offer Letter is the Letter of Intent to Hire you. This letter is issued by the company and it states they wish to hire you for so and so designation with so and so salary as discussed in the interview on so and so date. Candidate can accept or reject the offer. Acceptance of offer do not make a formal relationship of employer-employee. For that an appointment letter has to be given which states the designation of the employee, date of join, department, salary break up, certain rules and procedure, etc.
Also note that appointment letter is always in duplicate (2 copies) You need to sign a duplicate copy and hand it over to the employer for their records.
When you accept or sign the appointment letter you will have to abide by the terms and conditions of the company.
SInce you have not been given any appointment letter, you should ask your manager to give you one.
If incase you wish to leave the firm, convey the same in writing to the manager stating your last day of working.
This is so that you should not fall in the bad books.
When you say your boss is insisting you to resign first so that she can give you a letter, ask her to explain you why she wants you to resign and ask her to do so over the mail. And tell her, since you do not have an appointment letter, you are not liable to resign and cover a notice period. But ensure you do so early next month after you get your pay check else she would not pay you a penny for your month....
Hope it helped :-)
From India, Mumbai
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