It doesn’t make sense to me either, but it seems to be the way of the corporate world.
New research reveals that sticking to one boss and one company doesn’t always lead to success
Nothing new here. Started in the 90s in IT. 5 different companies in 3 years, went fro 32K to 85K.
Scott Adams is a great example of job hopping . He quit at least three jobs because he knew DEI would hold him back. Dilbert may not be running in the papers anymore but Scott continues to soldier in via his own web page.
From 1979 till about 1990, I worked at 27 different shops around the Detroit suburbs. The job title was either Blue Print / Gopher, Detailer, Layout, Designer or Checker - in the Drafting biz. That was the way you grew your rate. Sometimes I’d leave for $1/hr raise, sometimes $3 or $4/hr, once or twice I took a pay cut, but in the world of drafting back then, that was business as usual. Apparently, Gen Z is figuring out the same can be done these days.
You are competing with others every day whether you realize it or not. Always be open to opportunity. Keep building your knowledge, continuing education is key. If your knowledge stagnates your value will drop as others leave you behind. As your knowledge increases you will leave your competition behind or at least keep up better.
If you are a young white guy, it has been very hard to obtain a promotion.
It was not as hard 20-30 years ago, but women and minorities were still favored in administrative promotions and hiring.
Yes. That’s the way of it. If I could advise my 30 year younger self, I’d advise differently.
There's a big difference between someone who has 10 years of experience and someone who has 1 year of experience 10 times.
-PJ
Young workers are especially likely to quit a job as a way of getting ahead early on in their careers. Most (83%) consider themselves to be job-hoppers, according to a report from ResumeLab—and they’re onto something.
If I was starting today, I would pick a small company with a good leader that cares.
One of the big enemies of small business is regulation. Trump has this on the agenda I am sure.
If done right, there will not be a lot of jobless people but many self employed people. Self employed people are not easy to control like employees.
This is a major change in our society and will take time.
“75% of employees leave before ever getting promoted”
Now that’s a “DUH” statement if there ever was one. Not everybody can get promoted. If a boss handles five to ten subordinates, then you’ve got a lot of competition for that one promotion.
“the contract between employer and employee has been severed in the 21st century”
I remember hearing that 50 years ago. Young people always think history started this morning at breakfast.
We had a guy come in who never stayed at a job more than a few months.
Management thought he was the cat’s meow and paid him lots of money.
Then when he left six months later management was just incensed.
I had no idea why they thought he would stay.
In the worst cases, I've seen key positions sit vacant for six months to a year and a half because no one on the outside wanted to join and everyone on the inside knew a manager or director was a complete a-hole and wouldn't work in their division.
“Shaping up” that’s always been the way. You’ll always get a better raise, and easier path to a higher title jumping company, or a different department in the same company. It’s getting more so now that companies all seem to think a 2% raise is a lot. But even in decades past, it would generally take you 5 years to get from a 1 to a 2 in the company, but you can usually get hired as a 2 with 3 years experience. The hop has always been better if you’re chasing titles and money.
Depends on the type of work, With some, success and retirement. With others career death and no one wants to even talk to you.
Just tell them that you are a red-dot.