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1. Understanding Your Employee Benefits: Understanding a Job Offer .

As a recent college graduate, you are excited to start the search for your first career position.

You have already started interviewing for opportunities as a management trainee.

You have been fortunate to have two interviews so far, and you identified several other companies to apply to at a resent job Fair. From what you have learned, it seems that the starting salary for job as a management trainee in your area is about the same at all companies. Therefore, you know that salary isn't going to differentiate one job offer from another. It will, of course , be important to understand the work environment and future career opportunities at a given company as you compare offers . As you think back to some career-search seminars you've attended, you remember that you should also compare benefit offering.

As you look through the Web sites of the companies you have applied to, you quickly see that there are lots of different benefits plans offered. In fact, as you look at this information, you start to become concerned that comparing benefits is going to be ? challenge. You think that you need to have a better understanding of the value of different benefits when you consider the total compensation you would receive from a company. You decide to start by more closely looking at the benefit offered by your current best prospect, which is position at a large established corporation where you interviewed last week. You pull up the careers page on the company Web site and find ? chart that lists the benefits offered

Describe How employee benefits fit into the total compensation function?