Do I want this job
am 27 with a Masters degree and work in marketing. I have been working in my current job for 2.5 years. I enjoy my work and my colleagues and I work for a really incredible company with great benefits, competitive salary. The problem I have is that I am in my sixth year of professional experience and my title is entry level. Although I like my work and company and am by no means bored with what I do, I know that there are not opportunities for me to advance where I am. My department has a very young management and the team I work on is pretty set in its hierarchy, with me firmly junior in my position. The work I do specifically is very narrow, very niche. While that has its perks, it's also a little limiting, especially if I want to stay in my industry and region. I am in the final courting stages for a new role with another company in the same industry. The title is two steps above where I am now and the benefits and company are strong. There is potential that I would make a significant amount more in salary with the new company ($15,000 more minimum). The position is a very different from what I do now. Where I focus now on one facet of marketing, the new role is everything -- event planning, RFPs, editing, networking, business development. And where I currently work with a collegiate staff of 30 in my department, I would be the sole marketing person in the office of the new company (there are other marketing folks, just not in the office I would work in). It's a big change -- a huge step up in title, salary, responsibilities and I'd be doing things I have not had much experience doing, too. And, given I would be the lone marketing person in the office, it'd be all on my shoulders. I am comfortable and love where I am now, but I know this change would be a scary-but-good one to take. It'd be a big step forward. It is what I "should" do -- bigger title, more money, more marketability...but I am really scared, too, to leave the familiar behind. I feel iffy about it all, I can't settle on a "gut" feeling. I feel like I should 100% want this job, but I am unsure, at the same time. I think my fears are getting in the way. Am I just getting too scared by the changes ahead? Is the new job with a new company (or one that isn't very solid, big or well established)? If so, then I'd say this is very risky. Being the sole marketing person in a new business, especially since you're really not very experience is really putting yourself on the line. If it works out, it could be great. Otherwise, you could be job hunting in a few months. Only you can decide if the potential risk is worth the rewards. Tess
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