Why Good People Leave Good Jobs
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Why Good People Leave Good Jobs
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#2Sigh... I think my job hits just about all of them. Although I think that would disqualify it from being a "good job".
Follow up needs to be "Why Good People Stay at Bad Jobs".
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#3a series of 1- or 2-year stays will still hurt you. Five to 7 years at a company is a good run. Consider 2 to 3 years the minimum commitment when accepting a new job.
Is this statement accurate? At first glance it seems to be a little conservative. I ask as a potential career changer with 2.5 years in my first position, and 1.5 into my second.
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#4a series of 1- or 2-year stays will still hurt you. Five to 7 years at a company is a good run. Consider 2 to 3 years the minimum commitment when accepting a new job. Is this statement accurate? At first glance it seems to be a little conservative. I ask as a potential career changer with 2.5 years in my first position, and 1.5 into my second.
I think it depends on who you ask.
I think it's assumed that 2+ years is a normal stepping away point. Personally I've done a nearly 7 year stint, then a 2.5 year stint, and currently nearly a year into my current position. My thoughts are that I wish I would have changed jobs more often for my first job when I was learning, to open up my mind to what was out there. Although I still think it's important to move around. 5 years seems like you're stagnating (unless you're in a position where you are driving the direction).
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#5a series of 1- or 2-year stays will still hurt you. Five to 7 years at a company is a good run. Consider 2 to 3 years the minimum commitment when accepting a new job. Is this statement accurate? At first glance it seems to be a little conservative. I ask as a potential career changer with 2.5 years in my first position, and 1.5 into my second.
It does seem a bit conservative to me, which is why I submitted the link. I wanted to see whether I was alone in that thought.
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#6"I see a lot of CVs. For years, I’ve noticed that some people—a lot of people, actually—don't stay very long at their first jobs. They may accept the job intending to retire there in 30 or 40 years, but instead they leave quickly, adding an early blemish to their CVs."
Leaving your job is considered an early blemish? Give me a break
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#7Sigh... I think my job hits just about all of them. Although I think that would disqualify it from being a "good job". Follow up needs to be "Why Good People Stay at Bad Jobs".
agree
Re: Why Good People Leave Good Jobs
#8a series of 1- or 2-year stays will still hurt you. Five to 7 years at a company is a good run. Consider 2 to 3 years the minimum commitment when accepting a new job. Is this statement accurate? At first glance it seems to be a little conservative. I ask as a potential career changer with 2.5 years in my first position, and 1.5 into my second.
This goes against a lot of what I've read in the past, where the 1.5/2 year mark is where you re-evaluate where you are and what you want. My longest stay somewhere was 3.5 years, and that felt like an eternity given the type of work I do and how I yearn for constant growth, particularly through change.
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#9Why is that question interesting? To me, it's like asking why water is wet. "Good people" leave "good jobs" for an unimaginably large array of reasons. I've left good jobs to go back to school, to start a company, to take time off, because I was bored, etc.
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