As job longevity becomes a thing of the past, employers and recruiters are beginning to have a different outlook on job hopping.
In fact, Monster.com says job hopping (which most sources define as less than two years) is a potential career killer.
Today, options are so limitless that many (privileged) young people try to avoid making these decisions entirely staying in school longer, job hopping, dating around, pushing the average age of first marriage and child higher and higher.
Job hopping is more common with employees that are less tenured, and feel confident in their skills to be able to move on without burning a bridge and can add value immediately in a new opportunity.
As it turns out, job hopping can be extremely advantageous for certain types of people if they do it for the right reasons, says Laurie Lopez, a partner and senior general manager in the IT Contracts division at WinterWyman.
Frank Dadah, a principal account manager and general manager at WinterWyman , a recruitment firm that specializes in search and contract staffing in the Technology, Accounting and Finance, Human Resources, and Investments and Financial Services industries, says job hopping is moving from one company to the next for either a lateral move or promotion.
The survey also asked about job-hopping, or staying at a job for less than a year.
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Thirty-nine percent said job-hopping was the single biggest obstacle for an unemployed job seeker.
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This same study by Evolv showed that although job-hopping and a prior history of unemployment did not predict future job performance, other variables did.
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The job-hopping frenzy in the Indian workforce, particularly among ambitious, talented millenials is enough to prove that point.
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The students at Stanford Business School and the job-hopping members of the Five O'Clock Club might have a clear idea of the bargain they strike with employers.
Employers who expect a longer-than-five-year commitment from their employees should be looking at how their actions encourage or discourage the current trend of job-hopping to advance a career.
The relaxing of government controls and the right for labor to unionize and strike (part of the 2011-12 reforms) has meant that strikes are becoming more common as is job-hopping between factories.
The survey offers one bit of encouragement for older job seekers: Resopndents said a 55-year-old with a steady employment history was easier to place than a job-hopping 30-year-old with less than a year in one place.
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Last year Glenn Hiemstra, the founder of Futurist.com, told me this would become one of the biggest concerns for employers in terms of retaining young employees when the economy recovers, and linked that problem with the epedemic of job-hopping seen in Millennials.
That leaves many young women frozen or frantically job-, city- and relationship-hopping in search of perfection.
Hopping into the not-for-profit world can also help in landing a job when the world of money gets back into orbit.
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