Re: Quick career question--go in-house with another company, or stay outsourced with better conditions?

[beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com>]

What looks good on your resume is not a good criterion for choosing a job.
Trust your instincts - it sounds like you're in a good place right now.

It will do you much more good to enhance your career by studying rather than
relying on a name-brand to get you ahead in your career.

Just my 2 cents.

Bee

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Joey P <joeyp2008 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I've just had a job offer at a big consumer electronics manufacturer, and
> I'm not sure whether to take it. The main issue is whether it would look
> better on my resume to do that job, or to continue doing what I'm doing
> now,
> which is writing manuals for a very big cellphone brand and other major
> consumer electronics brands, but indirectly through outsourcing.
>
> My personal preference is to stay where I am for now, as there's far less
> commuting time than I'd have with the new job, which leaves me time to make
> a good start on the distance learning computer science course I want to do.
> However, I'm wondering just how much better it would look on my resume to
> have worked directly for a major manufacturer, as opposed to the kind of
> outsourced work I'm doing now (though the current work does still involve a
> fair bit of teamwork with my own co-workers and managers as well as with
> clients' own engineers and editors).
>
> The pay's also better where I am now, though that's not the most important
> issue. I want to do whatever's best for my future employment prospects.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Joe
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