Saw this post while taking my morning dump and came back to specifically make a similar comment.
This sort of job is a decision. You’ll be objectively underpaid. Be real, everyone here knows the reason they hired a junior admin is because they only wanted to pay for a junior admin. Anything other than that they say is spin.
But, they’re right that there’s room to grow. If you’re capable of it, this job will give opportunity to massively expand your skillset. They’ve brought growth into conversation, so see if they’ll spring for training or at least books (after you’ve identified specific ones that would be helpful). They’ve already forgiven some mistakes, so take the opportunity to be a little more adventurous for the sake of learning something. You won’t be getting your full value in salary, so extract some through the opportunities to gain experience that’s beyond the normal scope of a junior role.
After a year or two, push for a promotion. Raise would be good, but settle for formally dropping the “junior” in your job title if you have to. You’ll have more experience, more skills, and a resume showing a quickly earned promotion. That’s when you can begin the earnest search for the next role. How earnest will be a function of how much you like it there, how much you feel you’ve left to learn, and how open they are to the idea of paying you on par with your growth to that point.
Saw this post while taking my morning dump and came back to specifically make a similar comment.
This sort of job is a decision. You’ll be objectively underpaid. Be real, everyone here knows the reason they hired a junior admin is because they only wanted to pay for a junior admin. Anything other than that they say is spin.
But, they’re right that there’s room to grow. If you’re capable of it, this job will give opportunity to massively expand your skillset. They’ve brought growth into conversation, so see if they’ll spring for training or at least books (after you’ve identified specific ones that would be helpful). They’ve already forgiven some mistakes, so take the opportunity to be a little more adventurous for the sake of learning something. You won’t be getting your full value in salary, so extract some through the opportunities to gain experience that’s beyond the normal scope of a junior role.
After a year or two, push for a promotion. Raise would be good, but settle for formally dropping the “junior” in your job title if you have to. You’ll have more experience, more skills, and a resume showing a quickly earned promotion. That’s when you can begin the earnest search for the next role. How earnest will be a function of how much you like it there, how much you feel you’ve left to learn, and how open they are to the idea of paying you on par with your growth to that point.