Revolving Door!

[Loggie]

I get to see a lot of job applications come through our business and I'm amazed how many CVs show job changes every year or so. Is this really the norm these days, that people only hang on a few months here and there? Am I just being old fashioned? Looks to me like they can't hold down a job!

[Trucks n Sheds]

Ahhh. Them were the days. Went to work with the same company man and boy for forty years and retired with a gold watch ! LOL.

Reckon times have changed a lot. Workforce is far more mobile now and always looking to move to get promotion, rather than get promoted in the same business.

Maybe it's no bad thing heh?

[Robbie]

I reckon as companies down size, there is less chance for a 'career' and internal promotion. So people tend to move to gain promotions.

[rkirkpatick]

Hi;

How about the affect that labor hire for young people out of school and university may affect their thinking when they are use to earning top dollar as opposed to a full time entry level role. People don't sem to focus on the reasoning for starting at the bottom and working your way forward anymore.

You also see people change jobs consistently because they either aren't in the right job, their company or the right industry.

Taking a persons natural working habits and looking at what they genuinely excel at and ejoy doing is crucial for long term career growth.

You may like the job, you may like the industry but you may not like the company. . .

You make like the company, you may like the industry but hate your job. . .

You get the idea.

[TopLink]

rkirkpatick,

I tend to agree. I see a lot of people these days that have a very inflated opinion of their worth. They tend to not deliver and then get sacked, to move on to their next company, with some great story about why they only lasted 12 months.

These people tend to be very good at selling themselves, which makes it vital to assess candidates carefully and try to check independent references.

[Starbucks Junkie]

I tend to agree. I see a lot of people these days that have a very inflated opinion of their worth. They tend to not deliver and then get sacked, to move on to their next company, with some great story about why they only lasted 12 months.

These people tend to be very good at selling themselves, which makes it vital to assess candidates carefully and try to check independent references.

Top Link,

I find this a very negative view.

I had been with a company in a supply chain role for ten years, was good and produced results but never excelled.

Went for an interview at two companies, one of them being Corus, and the Operations Director told me that he wasn't going to emply me because I quote "You could be stuck in a rut" havoing been with the same company for so long, his advice to me was to stay no longer than 3 years, gain your experience in as much industries, discplines as you can, excel in everything and really make a difference and then move on.

I took his advise, I have stayed no longer then 3 years in any one of my roles since, have really effe cted the bottom line reducing costs etc, lean engineering processes and then moved on.

In the last 8 years I have worked for 6 different companies across 3 different industries and in very different discilpines, my CV ripples with achievments, actual tangible achievments.

I thank the man at Corus for his advise it has been the best anyone had given to me or has given to me since.

The only attitude employers need to get over now is that not everybody with a degree is necassary the best person to employ

[TopLink]

Starbucks Junkie,

Then the policy of moving around a lot seems to have worked for you. Well done.

For a lot of people though, it can indicate that they find it hard to settle into a role and deliver results. I know of many people who have moved around a lot, who had to! But they still seem to spin a good story and get high profile highly paid roles, only to be 'found out' 12 months later and move on again.

One guy I know very well, actually makes more money from drafting great contracts (with huge payouts if he gets sacked) than he gets from his salary. Last three jobs he got fired from he got 12 months salary as a pay out!

Just my view And I accept that many people actually plan to move jobs often, building their career profile. One guy that I work with has planned his career that way for the last 20 years and is very successful. Someone I have a great deal of respect for. But.......he is not a 20 something who thinks he is the best thing since sliced bread. his results speak for themselves

You sound like you are building a similar track record, so well done.

[Loggie]

Sorry, I must be old fashioned

If I see a resume where someone has changed jobs every 12 months it screams "can't hold down a job"

What do some of the recruiters here think?

[Kent]

I had always been told work experience with many companies as Starbucks Junkie has described was very attractive to employers (at least in the western world; I have heard it is the opposite in Asian nations such as Japan). It shows you have a wide range and are ambitious.