Decline a Job Offer -- The Right Way!

Over the last few weeks I have been asked by students and alumni that are fortunate enough to have several job offers, how to decline the offer or offers they do not want to accept. In fact, one of my own daughters recently had several offers for funded PhD work and was confronted with a similar issue. Sometimes you are so clear on what job you want that saying no seems fairly straightforward, but in other instances you might have doubts or feel that job might be something you would be more inte...