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I accepted a job offer at a new company, but my current company wants to keep me.? |
I currently work in a miserable accounting department as an A/P clerk. I hate my job in A/P and didn't like the way the company was being ran - it's a 13 year old company experiencing severe growing pains. So, I interviewed for and accepted a job as an accounting assistant at another company. This new job will still involve A/P and some billing, but it's at a smaller more established company, so I think I might like that better. Here is the problem: My degree is in Business Information System and in order to try and keep me, my current company has offered me a job as a jr. data analyst in the IT department. This sounds like a great opportunity since it's more in line with my major and I would probably like the actual work better than working in another accounting dept doing boring accounting work. Should I let my new employer down and take this new position at my current company? I really like databases and analysis and I think it might be a way into the field. You are "drifting" - moving from one job to another in hopes the next will be better, even though it is a lateral move in the same field (shame sh*t, different company). If what you are doing is not what you enjoy, move to what you really want to do. If Information Systems is where you want your career to go, take the job (your company obviously likes you if they are offering the position. That means you have an established reputation already - don't throw it away to start another job at the same rung on the ladder where you have to prove yourself all over again). If you don't know what you want to do, stay where you are and figure it out (they like you, and your resume won't show that you drifted around from company to company). Then make a plan to get there. Give yourself goals and make sure your management is aware and onboard. If you want to move up to DBA in 2 years, ask people what the expectations are for a DBA role, then make plans to get those skills, volunteer to do those types of tasks 6 months from now, and start hanging out with the DBAs so they get to know you. If your manager says you are doing well, let him or her know you like what you do and want to continue to advance (become a DBA within the next year or so). Ask them what you will need to know/demonstrate to get ahead. Life is too short to work at something you don't like. No one will manage your career for you - you will be your own best career manager. Presuming your current company doesn't know you have accepted a new job, stay with the current company. Then explain the situation to the new company and thank them for the opportunity, etc. If your current company is offering you this new position because you told them you were leaving, then you need to leave and don't look back. Next time find a job related to your degree. After reading some more of your comment, perhaps you should stay with the current company and launch your career in BIS. Apparently, your CFO knows you hate your current job and trying to get you into a new position. Is it a new position they created to keep you or was there an opening? Having tendered your resignation, do not then take a U-turn and stay on for the wrong reasons (like more money, for one). Don鈥檛 forget that the very act of resigning is like slamming the door in your boss鈥?face with a 鈥楬ah! Take that!鈥? It鈥檚 not a good thing to accept counter offers. Whatever trust there may have been in the relationship between your boss and you would have been fractured when you tendered your resignation. Well one of the two companies is not going to be happy so in this case go with what you feel you would enjoy the best. Be sure however that if you are actually staying where you are that you are confident that your current boss is not going to stick it to you after you inform the other company that you will not take the position. It sounds like you really want the database job so do that .. explain to the new company what has happened...they will accept that ..what choice do they really have.. |
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