Given A Choice What Would You Opt For, A Dream Job Or A Dream Company?

The job times are getting better as the latest labor report revealed and there are reports of increased hiring for the holiday season, albeit temporary.

What if you were suddenly offered two jobs and both drew similar salaries and had similar benefits but one was a dream job in a not too big a company and the other an entry level job but in a company you always dreamt about, a company that would give you bragging rights amongst your peers?

The first offer is a dream position but not a dream company, an entry-level job in recruiting, something you have wanted to do all your life. But it is a contract job, so there will not be any benefits nor will there be any job security. The environment seems stressful and the workplace doesn’t seem to be very happy working one. Would this job make you happy? Are you sure that you should take it on, just because it is the job that you are looking for.

The second job is in a dream company, the type whose pictures you see in newspapers and on the net. The environment is great as is the infrastructure. Everything works with clockwork precision. The company has a great reputation and those in the top echelons of the management, apart from being brilliant leaders and entrepreneurs, are celebrities in their own right.

Add to this heady mix, really great benefits and perks, the time where you will want to spend the rest of your life within the workplace campus. But there is one hitch; the job you want is in recruiting the one that they have offered you here is in sales, something you are not too fond off. You had been interviewed for the recruiting job, but they found someone better and offered you this one instead.

So what do you do? Do you take the sales job and hope that you will work your way to the job that slipped through your fingers. Would it not be foolhardy to take the first job and probably put yourself in a position where you could be unemployed after a few months? Caught in this dilemma, what would you do?

The dream company job looks better not because it is a dream company, but because a happy working environment is very important.

An unhappy workplace means that you could have a grumpy boss, grouchy coworkers and a place where work culture is virtually non-existent. It is found that when people like their workplaces, they also like their jobs.

Of course it does not mean that you take on any job in a good company, but if you are reasonable okay with the job offered, you will; in all probability will be happy taking up the latter job.

Moreover, many people find that what they had perceived to be a dream job is not so great after all. As you work, you evolve and grow with the job and will surely find many other interesting things to do. So don’t be too rigid about the ‘dream job,’ not getting it may be a blessing in disguise.

If you do decide to opt for the sales job, the eventual decision must of course come from you, concentrate on it and don’t start to plan how to get that elusive recruiting job. If you, down the line, sought a change of job, it might give the impression that you are not too enthusiastic about your sales role. Learn more about it and don’t think of it as a job that was not your first-choice – the more you delve into it, the more you’ll know about it and you may find that it is not so bad after all.