Career Advice: Should You Work for a Big or Small Company

Transcript: Hi there, everybody. I got a question recently from a viewer and it's, "Which is better to take? A big job in a little company or a small job in a big company?" Great question. I love that, from a career development standpoint. It really depends on your tolerance for risk and how much you want to take control over your career moving forward. There's positives and negatives to both sides of things. A big job in a smaller company usually gives you more experience. You're exposed to different things because things aren't as segmented as they are in larger companies, but your advancement rests on the ability of the organization to grow, or you to create a job for yourself moving forward, or for you to find a job in another small company. You have to take a little bit more of your own career development on yourself in those smaller companies. Taking a small job ... and it can be a similar job, but in a larger organization, it is a smaller job, gives you more of a clear path forward. You have the safety of a large organization that is going to have opportunities for you to grow. Whether it is within your own department moving up, or whether it is in a neighboring department moving up. What you are is you're constrained in your development and that path can be slow, depending on the growth of the organization and just the mindset of the organization moving forward. Truthfully, to get right down to it, I recommend bouncing between the two. I think it's a great opportunity for you to have the security and the understanding of how a large organization works. Don't get me wrong, both of these organizations, small and large, value the experience from the other side. Small companies love that you worked for a large company and you can help them, you can move procedures and everything else in the culture of a large company, because all small companies usually want to be larger. The large companies love the broad-based experience that you had in a smaller company. A lot of times what can happen is, is you can move up the ladder by bouncing between the ladders, and you can actually do that faster than if you just move up one particular type of ladder. If you're looking for that experience or that advancement, that can be an option for you. That's kind of the as the negatives and it really is a personal decision as to whether you want to work in a large company, have that security and that clear path forward, or whether you're a little bit more of a risk taker and like those smaller companies where you can have more impact and more control over your own career advancement. That's a fantastic question for us. Thanks so much.

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