{"id":2599,"date":"2015-07-13T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2015-07-13T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:25:23","slug":"does-job-jumping-matter-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/07\/does-job-jumping-matter-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Job Jumping Matter Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would answer no.\u00a0 I have the opportunity to look at many resumes on any given day and there is a definite sea-change in the job jumping area.\u00a0 Millennials are <em>far<\/em> less loyal to their employers than any generation before them.\u00a0 In fact, I would say \u201cjob\u201d jumping isn\u2019t accurate, they are actually \u201cskill\u201d jumping.\u00a0 These employees are often looking for personal skill development and once they sense they have tapped out their growth curve in their current role, they leave.<\/p>\n<p>I spend a fair amount of time explaining this skill jumping behavior to old-school hiring managers.\u00a0 Companies must have a plan for ongoing development of their Millennial workforce otherwise they will look for skill development at a different company.<\/p>\n<p>This somewhat new trend is well documented in <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2015\/07\/setting-the-record-straight-on-switching-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">this Harvard Business Review article<\/a>.\u00a0 From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sullivan says that employers have become more accepting of brief periods of employment. As many as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerbuilder.com\/share\/aboutus\/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?sd=5%2F15%2F2014&amp;id=pr824&amp;ed=12%2F31%2F2014\">32% of employers expect job-jumping<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s become part of life,\u201d says Sullivan. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.entelo.com\/new-entelo-study-shows-when-employees-are-likely-to-leave-their-jobs\">people are most likely to leave their jobs after their first, second, or third work anniversaries<\/a>. Millennials are especially prone to short stays at jobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danschawbel\/2011\/11\/22\/whos-at-fault-for-high-gen-y-turnover\/\">Sullivan\u2019s research shows that 70% quit their jobs within two years<\/a>. So the advice to stick it out at a job for the sake of your resume is just no longer valid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/W150701_GALL0_GOODTIME.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"W150701_GALL0_GOODTIME\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/W150701_GALL0_GOODTIME_thumb.png?resize=316%2C183\" alt=\"W150701_GALL0_GOODTIME\" width=\"316\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you catch that\u20262 years!\u00a0 I suspect that fact is due to companies being slow to provide development paths for these new employees.\u00a0 The days of pension-earning careers with one company are long gone.<\/p>\n<p>The Millennials are skewing the tenure number lower, but other generations are catching on also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The average length of time a worker stays in a job these days is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/tenure.nr0.htm\">4.6 years<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have a plan to grow your direct reports\u2019 individual skill sets.\u00a0 Put milestones out there for them to achieve.\u00a0 Have a plan and share it with them.\u00a0 If you need help, we can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would answer no.\u00a0 I have the opportunity to look at many resumes on any given day and there is a definite sea-change in the job jumping area.\u00a0 Millennials are far less loyal to their employers than any generation before them.\u00a0 In fact, I would say \u201cjob\u201d jumping isn\u2019t accurate, they are actually \u201cskill\u201d jumping.\u00a0 These employees are often looking for personal skill development and once they sense they have tapped out their growth curve in their current role, they leave. I spend a fair amount of time explaining this skill jumping behavior to old-school hiring managers.\u00a0 Companies must have a plan for ongoing development of their Millennial workforce otherwise&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2015\/07\/does-job-jumping-matter-anymore\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,23,4,11],"tags":[1748,31,646,30,582,1766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-FV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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