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Choosing Your First Job: Size Matters
Exploring the pros and cons of job opportunities using a simple and effective and heuristic
Setting the Stage
After years of studying, internships, and time spent mastering your craft, it’s time to finally pursue a full-time job. It’s competitive out there, but you’ve put in the work and you’re confident about your chances.
You go through a couple interviews and they go well. Some time after, you hear back from recruiters with good news! Just like that, you’ve got offers to consider and deadlines to meet. You’re on the clock. Now you just have to decide which opportunity is going to be optimal for you and your goals.
This may sound simple, but it can often be extremely difficult. Some people out there describe this decision as the single hardest part of the entire job hunting process. Common advice includes to ‘follow your gut’, and while this can be useful, I believe this decision is significant enough that it’s well worth breaking down further.
How do you compare and assess what opportunities are best for you?
There is an infinite amount of factors that play a part in this decision and there’s certainly no right answer to this question. However, I believe this in the context of…
