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Which preposition fits best between 'career' and 'corporation'?

This business course will help you advance a career with/in/at a corporation.

I already had a look at this post, but I believe it refers to a slightly different situation. The addition of a noun, i.e. 'career', before the word 'company' (or 'corporation') might change the rules.

I ran some google searches but I got very few results for each case, so I was wondering if perhaps I should rephrase the sentence in a different way.

Fra
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  • I would actually be tempted to say "within", to help resolve the tension between talking about a career and talking about a single organization. – Luke Sawczak Sep 25 '22 at 12:34
  • We actually say: This business course will help you advance your corporate career. corporate career collocates much better than career in/with/at a corporation. – Lambie Mar 12 '23 at 17:37

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Generally one doesn't have a career with, in, or at a specific corporation.
Those words would be used more generically:

  • a career in medicine (a large field with many possible jobs and locations).
  • a career with great financial rewards (an attribute of the job).
  • a career at McDonald's (humour indicating a life-long low paying job).

For a specific employer, it would be better to say:

  • a career within Google (the specific company is more important than the specific job).
Ray Butterworth
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