Does it really matter where your first job is if you’re not planning on staying there for more than a year?

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Yes, good luck getting a good second job if your first is at a bad place. Not impossible, but it makes it a lot harder.

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Idk what CW1 is talking about. I’ve been headhunted endlessly after one agency decided to “trust me” with a perm role🤣 get that experience wherever you can, that’s your goal in the first half of your starting-up year

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It most certainly does. You asked if I *am* at a bad agency, not if I ever *was*.

Ideally you want to be somewhere that lets you make the most of that one year you’re gonna be there. A shop that specializes in something you’re not interested in making your whole thing, like CRM or pharma, will make some recruiters and CDs assume that’s all you do.

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Nah, as long as you can network and sell yourself you good.

Not really. My first job I was an intern and worked up to AD in a small boutique agency. I think it’s the skill set you build not who you work for. Agree with CW3

Perception is reality.

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