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It’ll probably take care of itself as more and more potential employers notice your chronic job hopping and decide that you might be a risk.
I've almost tripled my salary in 6 years job hopping. Have at it.
Well done! This is reasonable to me, that’s ~2 years per company. OP is averaging under a year per company.
Well, I'm the person who stayed loyal and there's a few peers I have that didn't stay loyal.
1. I networked internally, and have a few mentors in the same company.
2. From there, I learned about other departments and how they function... and had chance to do some hands-on work with them.
3. I get promoted because of who I know and what I can do. Not many can do what I can do across different teams.
4. My peers who hopped around, usually don't build that network and don't have experience doing other things OUTSIDE their current specialty.
5. Eventually, they will find they won't get true leadership opportunities because they don't know the bigger picture. They are stuck in the same title or move very slowly upwards.
6. I now make more than most of my peers, in another country where the currency is stronger (so I earn MUCH MORE than my peers). I'm not alone here. There is another person with the same story.
Play the long game.
I feel like there's a chance factor that comes into play. Some places don't grant internal promotions that easily, or it's a question of who you know or being on the right team.
I've seen people going 2 years without a promo, waiting out 1 more year for it to happen, getting discouraged and spending another year looking for a way out and cut their losses.
The worst part is that they would basically stop making an effort at the end of year 2 so their progression would be minimal for more than half of their experience on the job...
It's an extreme case but I've seen it more than once.
Loyalty doesn't always pay imo.
You’re going to start being seen as a risk. It costs a lot of time and money to hire someone, and companies will raise an eyebrow at this. I have not hired a couple of people because their average tenure was similar to yours, and I had equally qualified candidates who had stronger longevity at places.
If you’re always chasing money you’re going to miss what becomes more important at higher levels, such as managerial experience, working with C suite, building relationships, and understanding the deeper ins and outs of the work and agency that you can only get with tenure.
6 jobs in 6 years? I wouldn’t even interview you at this point, to be honest. Especially if you came through a recruiter. It’s too expensive to pay a recruiter 20% plus relocation (once we’re relocating again, of course) plus time and energy training and on boarding. I hope you take that as direct, not harsh, but you’d be too risky to me at this point. If you had 3, maybe 4 jobs in 6 years and your resume was solid, I’d have you interview with our team and feel out why you switched every 2 years or less. There are good reasons for that. But averaging less than a year across 6 companies for 6 years would make me think you are either too antsy or not actually strong in the position and leaving around the time it becomes obvious.
As someone who interviews a lot of people across all levels, your resume would be a red flag. How do I know you can see long-term projects through to completion? Is your job-hopping influenced by poor performance, or a me-first attitude that will see you run for the door the second something else pops up? Those are the types of questions that would run through my head.
There will always be an offer to go somewhere else. I can tell you with confidence that most places willing to overlook a couple more rapid hops are not good places to work.
I’m at 3 jobs in 1 year and asking myself the same thing, but I did double my salary in a year. It’s hard not to always be looking at the other side of the fence but I don’t want to get burned so I feel you
Haha!!
If you're switching because you're making big leaps in salary or titles, that's one thing. If you're doing more lateral moves, that looks like you have a problem. I always tend to get restless at jobs at about the 1 year point. That's when I tend to hit peak frustrations with a place. I've been there long enough to learn how things are done and for things to get on my nerves badly enough that I want to bolt. Then I stay a few months longer and the growing pains go away. You just have to stick it out and the urge will go away eventually.
Try to sit it out. A lot of people do this for money and titles and... end up stagnant or going backward midway in their careers because they don’t invest time properly in mgmt training, or getting exposed to all facets and challenges within different levels and functions in a particular career path.
I just left for another agency and I’m considering going back. The grass is not greener. I wish I never left, even though I’m making $15k more. If you’re mostly happy and doing good work and working for people you trust, stick it out.
I’d say you are being offered a chance to grow. That best happens within environments that don’t always make us happy, neither push us in ways we have designed for ourselves. Open yourself up to learning something you may not have considered, or considered beneath you?
If you are only 6 years out of university I will give you a pass. But ask yourself are you only hopping for money? Or more responsibility and a bigger job title? If it just for money this will be a case of the tortoise and the hare. You will have started the race strong but eventually someone who built a career on responsibilities, built relationships, managed people under them, and has a track record of proving growth year over year is the one that get get the higher level jobs down the line.
I’m so relieved to know I’m not the only one... I’ve had like 4 jobs in 4 years and feel like I’m doing something wrong or that I’m a bad employee when I was just actually making significantly more money each time (doubled my salary from when I first moved here!!) I feel like companies that you start out at in NYC can be flashy and you get your start there but quickly learn how difficult it can be to make ends meet, especially in NYC. I am trying to be better about job hopping but it’s so difficult sometimes when we see constant new companies and openings for more money
Lose your job. Then find one. You’ll want to keep it as long as possible.
I would assume you’re not good enough to get promoted where you are and/or that your performance isn’t great which is why you keep hopping before the company addresses it. Hopping quickly once or twice, there can be an explanation. 6 times in 6 years is a red flag. It would be a risky investment to hire you.
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“The devil you know is better than the one you don’t.”
When I see people jump in less than a year, I question that. Not much learning happens in less than a year, when you join a new company culture. So unless they’re simply a hired gun on gigs, people jumping around 4-5 times in 4-5 years tells me there might be a problem I don’t want to become part of my team.
Hopped 2 times in a Lil under 4 yrs and now my total comp is 2.5x where I started. Pretty happy where I am now but who knows. If they don't give u a long term incentive then go somewhere that will.
I’ve been sticking it out at a toxic, borderline abusive inhouse job for a year because people would judge me for hopping early.
This is invaluable study time, so you can build a nontoxic environment for your own team next. I was fired from one such job. I’m still glad for those learnings for what not to do.
My biggest mistakes were moves made just for the money. Once I turned down an agency twice and they came back with more money and covered my relocation. I turned them down because I didn’t get a good vibe during the interview. So I took the money. I was miserable. They were poorly run, lost clients and I got laid off. I wasn’t able to find a job that paid as well and took a big hit to start working again.
Do you think you’re constantly moving because you’re going to bad companies that just pay well? Some have to pay to deal with the turnover. After 2 years, I feel I’m just getting to know the place before I can judge potential growth. Eventually, the money move could become a setback.