About
Before You Say Yes
A pre-signing risk verification tool designed to help overseas job seekers identify hidden risks in visa, salary, contract, benefits, and relocation commitments before accepting an offer.
Our Mission
Each year, thousands of professionals accept overseas job offers based on verbal assurances and optimistic timelines — only to discover after signing that key promises were missing, ambiguous, or unenforceable. Visa sponsorship deadlines slip. Salary components get redefined. Relocation budgets shrink. Contract clauses override verbal commitments.
Before You Say Yes was created to close this gap. We believe that every overseas job seeker deserves a clear, structured way to verify what they're being offered — before they sign. Our tool turns the chaotic back-and-forth of offer negotiation into a systematic evidence check: what was promised, what is in writing, and what still needs confirmation.
This is not a legal advice platform. It is a risk-awareness and evidence-tracking tool. We help you ask the right questions, document the answers, and walk into the signing stage with your eyes open — not hoping for the best, but knowing what you've confirmed and what you haven't.
We are especially focused on job seekers navigating cross-border moves from developing economies, where the information asymmetry between employer and candidate is largest, and the cost of a bad offer — a failed visa, an unexpected tax burden, a broken relocation promise — can be life-altering.
Our Team & Expertise
Before You Say Yes is designed and maintained by a team with deep, first-hand experience in international hiring and cross-border career transitions.
Former International HR Professionals
Team members who have worked inside global HR teams — drafting offer letters, managing visa sponsorships, and handling relocations for multinational workforces. We know where the gaps between policy and practice live.
Global Recruitment Advisors
Advisors who have placed candidates across 20+ countries and understand the real friction points: what employers typically leave ambiguous, which clauses are non-negotiable, and how verbal assurances routinely fail to survive the contracting stage.
Cross-Border Job Seekers
People who have personally moved across borders for work — navigating visa applications, contract reviews, relocation packages, and family integration. The tool is shaped by what we wish we had before we signed.
Open-Source Community Contributors
The tool is open source on GitHub, inviting contributions from immigration lawyers, HR practitioners, and fellow job seekers to continuously improve the question bank, evidence templates, and risk indicators.
How It Works
The process is designed to fit into your existing offer evaluation workflow — not to add complexity.
Generate targeted questions
Based on your offer details — role, country, industry — the tool generates a structured list of verification questions covering visa, salary, contract, benefits, relocation, and family support.
Track evidence status
For each question, you log whether the answer is: confirmed in writing, verbally confirmed only, or still missing. The evidence panel gives you a real-time view of what's solid and what's at risk.
Review before you sign
When you're close to signing, cross-check your offer letter, contract, company policy, and HR emails against the checklist. The signing review module flags inconsistencies and reminders.
Data & Sources
Our question bank, risk indicators, and verification criteria are informed by the following authoritative sources:
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Employment relationship recommendations, termination of employment conventions, and cross-border labour standards.
National Immigration Bureau Websites
Visa sponsorship requirements, work permit categories, processing timelines, and dependent visa policies across major destination countries.
OECD International Migration Outlook
Annual data on labour migration flows, skill shortage lists, and integration policies.
National Tax Authorities
Income tax withholding rules, double-taxation treaties, and social security agreements relevant to cross-border workers.
Industry Compensation Surveys
Sector-specific salary benchmarks, total compensation breakdowns, and benefits prevalence data for international roles.
Community-Sourced Risk Reports
Anonymised patterns and red-flag indicators aggregated from real job-seeker experiences shared via open-source contributions.
Get in Touch
Before You Say Yes is open source. We welcome contributions, feedback, and collaboration from the community.