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read that tweet as free advice not to work for calacanis here's the full exchange between employer and employee: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:h1M0xdV67_EJ:pastebin.co...
Wow, that's ugly.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm tempted to believe that companies that prefer long term employment are the ones that need to train employees for their specific needs. Companies that make use of transferable skills instead increase their chances of a new hire quickly picking up where the previous employee left. e.g. a web dev, in a FOSS shop that uses well known best practices.
Or they—like my company—have complex code bases in complex languages (C++) that mean that you're not going to be an effective developer for anywhere from 3 - 6 months after hiring. It has nothing to do with training you for our specific needs, but everything to do with the fact that in a mature codebase there's lots of moving parts that can easily be broken, and there may be older choices that may not make sense beca…
If the answer is something along the lines of "I'll want to gain knowledge of and practical experience with C++, but the previous jobs wouldn't let me work in anything besides Java and scripting languages", it's good indication that are looking for a long-term home and not just a higher salary.
Technically I suppose I might be a "Gen Y" something-or-other, though at 33 I feel too old to be a "trophy kid". But I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you change companies frequently, but also get large, valuable projects done, it all evens out pretty well. Then again, perhaps that's just me rationalizing looking like a flake. Still, I'm a flake who has put together some good projects, and made some folks decen…
As someone who is hiring right now, I would look suspiciously at anyone who changed jobs every 12 - 24 months; it doesn't mean that I wouldn't interview you or hire you, but it means that I'm going to be digging pretty hard to understand why you've moved around so much. There's a lot of good reasons for people moving around, but I have to make absolutely certain that it's not a personality flaw that is in the candida…
If employees are going to outgrow their positions with you, though, and don't have a position to grow into, then you should dig. :)
Technically I suppose I might be a "Gen Y" something-or-other, though at 33 I feel too old to be a "trophy kid". But I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you change companies frequently, but also get large, valuable projects done, it all evens out pretty well. Then again, perhaps that's just me rationalizing looking like a flake. Still, I'm a flake who has put together some good projects, and made some folks decen…
As someone who is hiring right now, I would look suspiciously at anyone who changed jobs every 12 - 24 months; it doesn't mean that I wouldn't interview you or hire you, but it means that I'm going to be digging pretty hard to understand why you've moved around so much. There's a lot of good reasons for people moving around, but I have to make absolutely certain that it's not a personality flaw that is in the candida…
I'd think that a personality "flaw" isn't completely someone's choice, either.
Of course, digging hard also reveals a potential "personality" flaw on the part of the hiring company. As mrkurt suggests, if you're having trouble with retention, examine and improve yourself first.
Denmark is an interesting case study of this working very well to encourage a competitive economy. In Denmark it is extremely easy to fire people, but also very easy to hire people. This actually decreases unemployment, because companies can easily downsize during recessions, weather the storm, and then hire the workers back (unlike in the US where companies have to hang on to contracts while in a downturn). http://w…
When a recession happens, every company lays off people to keep profitability high, but the laid off people will stop spending, and then demand for goods and services will go down and then companies will lay off more people to match demand, but those people will stop spending too, so there will be a feedback cycle that will cause a world wide crash. And this is not just speculation, this is what actually happened in the 50 or so years before the new deal when you had continuous boom and bust cycles.
Again this does not happen in Denmark because of their generous government unemployment benefits, but if you do not have said benefits, it is asking for trouble.
Technically I suppose I might be a "Gen Y" something-or-other, though at 33 I feel too old to be a "trophy kid". But I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you change companies frequently, but also get large, valuable projects done, it all evens out pretty well. Then again, perhaps that's just me rationalizing looking like a flake. Still, I'm a flake who has put together some good projects, and made some folks decen…
As someone who is hiring right now, I would look suspiciously at anyone who changed jobs every 12 - 24 months; it doesn't mean that I wouldn't interview you or hire you, but it means that I'm going to be digging pretty hard to understand why you've moved around so much. There's a lot of good reasons for people moving around, but I have to make absolutely certain that it's not a personality flaw that is in the candida…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
At 33 you're Gen X.
What's gonna happen after Gen Z? Will counting wrap as in a spreadsheet?