Better Opportunity

What does better opportunity means? When someone asked during his / her interview about the reason for the change, they simply says “better opportunity” but what if, he was asked to elaborate the better opportunity then it will be a bit difficult for many of us to explain.

Usually most of us are really getting much better opportunity then we had dreamt about, however many of us are switching, just for the sack of change or better compensation or run towards the brand name. The recent example is “John Giannandrea”. After spending 8 years with Google, now moving to Apple. John is not a simple engineer or developer but the AI chief of Google. What made him to take this decision of movement?

The “better opportunity” is not one way, instead it is a two way agreement as the employer is also seeing better future with this change along with the aspirant applicant. Before switching the applicant might have inquired about the company, but does he / she actually what will happen once he’ll join the company. I think most of the time no. During the selection process he / she might be told about the responsibilities, still he / she will not be aware of actual condition and future. This makes him / her to think about the change.

It is not compulsory that this happens in all the change cases, we may find in many of the companies which are having staff more than a decade. For me this is the real best opportunity where both see themselves each other as the best opportunity. This makes healthy relation, better understanding and develop trust towards each other.

Working in a long relationship may make us think about the comfort zone, which is up to some extent true, however on the other hand this long relationship helps a lot. So think few time before looking for better opportunity, if that opportunity will actually pay you as a better option.