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I want to earn good money without compromising on WLB.
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1 year at a Fintech firm in Product role (Current Role) in Gurgaon
1 year at PwC as Consultant 1
MBA (Finance) grad Skills: SQL, Excel, Power BI, Client Issues, Jira for bug reports and tracking team activities, etc.
Any companies that anyone can suggest? Any other skills that I should pick up? Current base pay is 10 LPA. I feel a bit underpaid.
Want to stay in similar business analyst, product analyst roles.
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Hi All,
Please guide do Joining Cognizant on Contractual role is worthy or not?
Current Situation - due to bgv not completing as one of my company as per CTS is black listed so they changed my hiring from permanent to contractual role.
Please guide as I have no knowledge of contractual roles. 🙏
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It’s always easier to get a job when you have a job…
Mentor
This :/
You feel that way because you do. Even if it's not your dream job, it's still a job, and those aren't easy to come by right now. Accept it, continue applying, and leave once you get a better offer.
Mentor
Accepting this offer does not preclude you from continuing to look. People are going much longer without landing even a less desirable role, I'd take it unless you have a year's expenses saved and are willing to burn through it.
Bowl Leader
Bingo!!
Like others said, take the job and keep looking. Companies have themselves ruined any idea of loyalty. So take the paycheck until you find something better than bail. Give notice etc so you don’t burn bridges but then do you.
You’ll not only be able to eat and pay bills but also say No to an even crappier job and have leverage to negotiate for that kewl job you want
Yep, I think it's general consensus these days that you take the first job you get an offer for, and then continue to look. Even if you got stuck there for a year or so, it's better to be looking with a paycheck
Like others said, take it and keep looking. Youll be in a stronger position when that ideal job comes along.
Bowl Leader
Well said!!
Accept the job it may turn out to be better than you imagine over time. If you are still not satisfied, continue to look for something else, the job market is too challenging to take a chance of being out of work long term. Good luck.
If you feel you need to accept it due to financial reasons, take it and keep looking. You'll have the security and it buys you time.
I thought I was going to be the only one with this perspective. Everyone is assuming that you can’t pay your bills without this undesirable job. If that is the case, then fine. But if you have the means to put it off for a few months, I would say no to this job and work hard to find something better. My last job affected my mental health and my physical health. Some jobs just aren’t worth it. There are other options to buy you time to search. Scale down your home, scale down your car, sell some jewelry or gold, borrow from a family member, cut your expenses, drastically…
For me, the idea of going to work every day miserable is way worse. I will work my a$$ off, but not for an a$$hole. For me that’s a non-negotiable.
So, I say—it depends. Do you have some cash to buy more time? Can you get it somehow? Are you truly going to be miserable if you accept the job? What stresses you more it’s a conversation you have to have with yourself.
Ask for more money and let them turn you down
Bowl Leader
I would say take it! At least you will be making money and then you can leverage that job for another!
Research upward mobility with the company. If it can lead to where you want to be, take it and work your way up.
Would the consensus be the same given that I know accepting this job will make it much harder to look for another one (I would be a one person team essentially doing 2 people’s job, plus currently trying to study & apply to law school). It’s been such a blessing to be able to focus full time on job search, but I already know I won’t have much time to do much else if I accept this first offer :(
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You have a great attitude and work ethic that created a positive pathway forward…..congrats!
I would accept it and keep looking. If you live in the USA, you basically have no other choice. The US doesn't care about its people.