The Working Week 47: Rowan Manahan on Job-Hopping
This week, Wayne is joined from Dublin by Rowan Manahan, the creator of the Blog Fortify Your Oasis and author of the career management book, Where’s My Oasis?.
As a piece on Management Issues observed last week, it’s normally assumed today that switching jobs is the best way to fast-track your salary. But now new research has suggested that hopping jobs too often can actually end up damaging your pay prospects.
As Rowan observes, for people of his generation (the 40-somethings), it was normal to stay in a job for many years – even for the majority of a career. But now, it isn’t uncommon to come across candidates who have had five or more roles in the same number of years.
So what is the reason for this huge increase in turnover? Have many people job-hop because they’re a square peg in a round hole and how many because they were pushed? And what does this mean for the careers in the long term?
But equally, what should recruiters do when they come across a serial job-hopper – and how can employers reduce their involuntary turn-over rate?
