On job offers, and the declining thereof

Wearingglasses

I received a job offer (via email) from a company I was applying for. Should I decline via email as well, or should I call them personally?

What's the best way to go about declining job offers?

aesir

It doesnt really matter all that much. Just send em back an e-mail. Maybe if they had called you, then you could have called back.

noobert

Wearingglasses wrote: »

I received a job offer (via email) from a company I was applying for. Should I decline via email as well, or should I call them personally?

What's the best way to go about declining job offers?

Just do both. Be polite and professional as burning bridges is always a bad idea.

Revolutionary

I think an email will be fine. I doubt the company will be seriously upset; just be polite and apologetic.

Thanatos

Personally, I'd say e-mail. If you're not going to take the offer, you may as well save the HR person the time the phone conversation would take.

EggyToast

Unless you want to decline to the manager or person you interviewed with personally, send an email. For instance, if it was a friend, or someone you had met with a few times to discuss the job, calling and saying "I like the job but it's just not going to work for me, and I wanted to let you know personally" can be the right thing to do.

If it was one job of many and you simply didn't like it, an email to HR is all you need.

AtomBomb

With things like this I generally think you should respond in kind. They sent you an email, so you should send them an email. You could do both, but I think that is overkill. If you only called and spoke to someone, I think there is a greater possibility that some of the people that would like to know you're not taking the job would not find out.