Aspire and the Graduate Recruitment Bureau reveal: How to avoid hiring millennial job-hoppers

Sourcing great talent is only the first step of the recruitment process. The second is to make sure that they will stay with you for a long time.

However, that may be easier said than done when you are dealing with millennials, according to Claudia Arva. She is the Group Manager of the Graduate Recruitment Team at the digital, media and marketing recruitment agency Aspire. Speaking exclusively to Executive Grapevine, Arva says: ““Millennials do change jobs more often and, as well as inherent differences in the way they view work, this is driven by the fact that it is a very buoyant market, with more jobs on offer and available.”

Her sentiment that the people born around the 90s are more prone to job-hopping is backed up by a study Samsung published in July 2015. The company had surveyed 2,000 people. The respondents were either below the age of 25 or over the age of 50. Their answers exposed the fact that 21% of millennials expect to have ten or more jobs in their careers, while only 13% of those over the age of 50 said the same.

Arva explains that in order to avoid hiring a millennial job-hopper, recruiters need to address any tendencies candidates may have to frequently swap jobs during the interview. Arva urges hiring professionals to ask candidates to walk them through each role that they have had. The goal of the questions is to understand “what they achieved against expectations, their salary expectations” and “their reason for leaving and desires for the future.”