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

["Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com>]

Make two lists of pros and cons and compare them. Your initial post is
heavily one-sided, though; read it and see for your self.

Cheers,

Sean

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Sean Brierley
Technical Writer
www.accu-time.com



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


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.
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