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

["Joey P" <joeyp2008 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks to everyone for the very helpful replies both on- and off-list.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Milan Davidovic <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Joey P <joeyp2008 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > 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,
>
> Who do you want it to look good to? I think it depends greatly on your
> objectives and whose favourable opinions you need to help you achieve
> them.
>
> Good luck...


Thanks, Milan. The people I want it to look good to are prospective
employers in the West in a few years time. I'm currently in Taiwan and plan
to get a few years' decent experience here first before moving back to the
UK or to another Western country. It seems particularly important to get the
right kind of experience as I'm in my early thirties, only recently got
started as a tech writer, and don't have a particularly techie background,
on paper at least.

I applied for the new job for two reasons. One was because I thought the
skills I would gain there would be very useful. But from what I found out in
the interview it seems that the nature of the work there is quite similar to
my work now.

The other reason was that I felt prospective employers in future might be
more reassured by seeing a block of time spent working directly for a major
company. However, I could certainly apply for other similar jobs, say next
year. Perhaps the company that's offering the job now might still be
prepared to take me on at a future date, if I explain about the computer
science course, although they'd wonder why I bothered applying now, of
course!

Joe
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