How To Develop Managers In The Age Of The Job Hopper

Job hopping was once perceived much more negatively by recruiters than it is in today’s employment market. Any applicant whose CV listed lots of jobs over a short period would probably set alarm bells ringing for potential employers.

Frequent and short periods of employment would have led most recruiters to at least question how well the applicant was able to integrate into their previous companies, or how well they coped with their work, or how loyal they were. Indeed, back then, the prospect of hiring and developing a job hopper would have been considered a high risk decision.

Today, however, employers are playing by new rules. Stable employment, strong social networks, fast technological advancements, and the rapidly changing nature of the workplace has offered much more choice and flexibility to employees; as a result, tenures in lots of organisations are now much shorter than they would have been a decade ago. In fact, a recent Paysa report revealed that even in the top 10 tech companies, the average employee tenure is less than 2 years.