My advice is to wait until you have clocked up about 500-1000 hours and then tackle it. You are very unlikely to get an IFR job in an IFR equipped aircraft straight out of flying school and could just end up with an expensive burden to keep current.
What Judd has said sounds like a sales pitch. Of course flying schools are going to want you to keep forking out your coins on more and more courses. The old "you're not a professional pilot unless..." :rolleyes nonsense is actually rather insulting to the any of us who fly professionally VFR and make good decisions so we don't end up having to "save our skin" because the airline life and all the bling might not appeal to all of us.
As an employer of VFR pilots, having an IR on your resume would make no difference to your application. Giving the impression that you might be the type to make decisions that would necessitate "saving your skin" however, would make a negative impression.