•What do employers think about people who change jobs often?

Question

Do you think changing jobs is good? What are some of the problems a person experiences when they change their job? What problems can people have when they change jobs frequently? Do you think people should stay in the same jobs all their lives (or long term)? (Why?/Why not?) What are some reasons why some people continue working at the same job for a long time?

Answer 1

Well, imagine that you're a teacher, and you have a new student who, at 14 years, has a history of changing 7 different schools.

If you can put yourself in this situation, how would you feel about your student? What would you ask yourself, what would be your concerns regarding that student's past?

Similar to this example, employers take into account how often a candidate changed his job, how similar those jobs were, and for how long he or she stayed in a position. Employers look for a reliable, loyal subordinate, and they make a long-time commitment in the moment he signs the employment papers.

Answer 2

As for how employer's view job hopping, its dependent on the reasons why you left each job behind. That's why companies that have applications ask why you left the jobs you held prior. If boredom, unresolved issues, involuntary termination are listed frequently, they consider you a hiring risk. Chances are you will encounter the same problems that you had the last company with their company. However, if you switch jobs because you moved, you needed a raise in salary, you completed a contracted project, or the company went under, then they are less likely to frown on it. The age of working for the same company all your life till you retire is dead. Many companies don't express the loyalty to workers that would drive workers to stick around, when they could try and find something better. Having said that, don't just quit jobs because they aren't working for you. There's nothing wrong with jumping from a sinking ship, as long as the next ship doesn't have holes in the hull. In desperation some people quit a job, and take another just as quickly thinking that nothing can be as bad as what you got out from. This creates the negative image that employers frown upon, because then you seem to make repeatedly rash foolish decisions.

Answer 3

As an employer, I think that a person (who changes jobs frequently) is unstable and not good for the team. I think a person who stays at the same job forever is fearful or unmotivated. I like to see people who change to find a better fit or for career advancement.

Answer 4

nicely, at sixty one years previous, i've got had various jobs...commencing with a paper direction, an ice cream/milk shop, a mom&pop grocery, freshen up team (blood room) in a hen processing plant, a storage door production facility, the U. S. army (2 many years+), somewhat Caesar's supervisor, a truck motive force, a gov't contractor engaged on US army ships (6 weeks), a warehouse supervisor in a community shipyard (7 years), a cemetery supervisor (6 months) and now a logistics tech working with distant places navies(15 + years). that would not contain some area time jobs i've got had: fireplace alarm sales, deliverer/cook dinner for Domino's, self provider gas station sales area attendant, taxi motive force, janitor for various companies. basically 2 cases did I no longer have a job coated up when I left anther...the USN when I retired, and when I have been given laid off on the shipyard by using loss of artwork contracts with the U. S. army.

Answer 5

people who change jobs a lot come across as not being able to hold down a job. no one wants to hire you, take the time and money to train you, etc if they think you are just going to quit/get fired soon. with a track record of a lot of jobs, thats just what they are going to think. having one job for 12 years might not be the best either, because you havent had a wide range of experience. somewhere in the middle is best.

Answer 6

In general I'd say it is good.
Otherwise you will be in unknown-unknown world.