Truth

Truth be told, I am getting screened out at resume stage due to no internship or work experience. In this job market, I decided joining anywhere even like a support role would be fine to gain some experience. But the IT services company which has offered me a role is not American and has a poor reputation in its home country. Allegedly, it is good for a wage but learning or long term career growth depends highly on your manager and it’s rare to get placed in a decent project. That really concerns me because if I cannot even learn there then what is the value of giving my time up for 1.5-2 years. When I leave it, how will I be in a better place to job switch? At the same time, it pays a good salary and I just want my career to start so I can stop being in limbo. I wonder if I’m ruining my career by going for the first role that offers me in this market well knowing that it has a lot of issues potentially. My market value is low, so I should just be grateful that I’m placed anywhere. I feel so scared like if I don’t take this then what if in one year from now when I finish my masters still nobody wants me and then we’ll be even a harder circumstance. If I took a job at least I will have some savings, but but if I have the same problem, then I’m really scared as to how you would navigate that. If I get placed in a good team and the work is actually as the job description said then theoretically it should be a good work experience builder. But what I hear by the employees in the home country is that you will get you will not learn anything because you’ll be placed in only busy work task. Right now, my plan is to take the offer and attempt to change companies after gaining 1.5-2 YOE. I’m debating if this might actually be detrimental and not sure how to leverage this to make job switch easier. Any suggestions?