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

Subject: Re: Quick career question--go in-house with another company, or stay outsourced with better conditions?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:43:25 -0700

How long do you want to continue doing what you do now, and
what do you want to do after that? Unless you know the answers
to those questions, there is no way to say what will "look better"
on your resume.

Gene Kim-Eng



> 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.

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