Job-Hopping

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Are you worried about being seen as a job-hopper? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Allison Rimm, a career coach and former executive. They talk through how to leave after a brief time on the job, explain a series of short stints on your résumé, or know when to stick it out.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.4	Today we're talking about job hopping with Allison Rimm.
0:35.8	She's an independent consultant and career coach.
0:38.5	Allison, thanks so much for coming on the show. Oh, I'm delighted to be here. Thanks.
0:42.3	So, Allison, is this worry about moving from one job to another very quickly a perennial problem,
0:48.5	or do you find that it's becoming more common? Yeah, I think it's such a generational thing.
0:57.0	So it was much more common to come out of school expecting to work for two, three, maybe four organizations over the course of an entire
1:02.3	career, and then you would retire, get the goal to watch, and all would be well. But the reality is
1:08.6	that kids coming out of college now are entering a very different work environment.
1:14.8	How often do clients come to you because they really want to leave a job that they've just started?
1:21.1	It's not unusual.
1:23.1	Generally, it's one of two things.
1:26.0	They got to a job and it's not what they thought or expected
1:29.7	or hoped it would be. And then they're like wanting to go. The other extreme that I see people get in,
1:37.1	young people out of school get in, they work for about four months and start to think that
1:42.4	they're doing such a great job that they deserve a promotion or a raise or something.
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