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Like others have said, the important thing is do you just bore easily? You have mostly pretty good reasons for the switches. The possible exception is the rese

Like others have said, the important thing is do you just bore easily? You have mostly pretty good reasons for the switches. The possible exception is the research career move ... didn't you know going in how little money you'd be making? Sounds a little flaky to give up on it for that reason. If I were interviewing you, I'd drill down on that one. The trick is, would I even interview you or would I see the resume and think, hmm, I don't know? I try to be very thoughtful about that but I usually get a lot of applicants ... I think you should try to keep this new position for a while.

nicolapede 11y ago
If he keeps the current position for 2 years or for 4 years, does it change dramatically the view you would have of his CV? I guess staying there for 10 years would have a sensible impact on how the resume would look like, I'm just trying to calibrate your perception as an interviewer.
- panjaro 11y ago
  I would love to have answer to this question. If I stay in my current position doing support/changes for next 4-5 years, would that mean my chances of being hired be high?
- matt_morgan 11y ago
  Sometimes I've gotten 200 applications for a job posting. Not for a long time, but in 2000-2001, after the Internet crash, it was ugly. You had no choice but to filter a lot. You did your best, knowing that you were missing some good candidates. But any little flag was enough to push you into the "no" or the "maybe" pile. Even when I've gotten relatively few applicants, it's still time-consuming to bring people in. I wouldn't say that a bunch of short-term jobs would rule out anybody on its own, but I would still like to see something that shows you had an impact during your short time. And like others have said, there's a lot of value in seeing big projects through from start to finish, so there might be positions where I'd be like, sorry, I need to see that you've done that before I hire you for this job. It's not the years, really, but what you've done in the amount of time you had. Like I said, the ones stated are mostly all good reasons for leaving a job. In an interview I woudld probably find them convincing. I also think it would be great to be able to say, for at least one job, "I stuck this one out and did everything I could, despite the odds stacked against it, because I really wanted to see something through." To you question specifically, I think having at least one job with a longer tenure would be a big improvement to the first-impression reaction most hiring managers would have to the resume.
  - nicolapede 11y ago
    Thanks a lot for your answer, I found it really useful.
panjaro 11y ago
I don't get bored easily but If the company/boss doesn't show any sign of progress or doesn't explain what I'll be doing in next 6 months then it disappoints me. But not to the extent that I'd leave. Changing country and a desire to do a research degree were reasons for leaving 2 companies. After that I had no job and I took whatever came my way.

nicolapede 11y ago

If he keeps the current position for 2 years or for 4 years, does it change dramatically the view you would have of his CV? I guess staying there for 10 years would have a sensible impact on how the resume would look like, I'm just trying to calibrate your perception as an interviewer.

panjaro 11y ago
I would love to have answer to this question. If I stay in my current position doing support/changes for next 4-5 years, would that mean my chances of being hired be high?
matt_morgan 11y ago
Sometimes I've gotten 200 applications for a job posting. Not for a long time, but in 2000-2001, after the Internet crash, it was ugly. You had no choice but to filter a lot. You did your best, knowing that you were missing some good candidates. But any little flag was enough to push you into the "no" or the "maybe" pile. Even when I've gotten relatively few applicants, it's still time-consuming to bring people in. I wouldn't say that a bunch of short-term jobs would rule out anybody on its own, but I would still like to see something that shows you had an impact during your short time. And like others have said, there's a lot of value in seeing big projects through from start to finish, so there might be positions where I'd be like, sorry, I need to see that you've done that before I hire you for this job. It's not the years, really, but what you've done in the amount of time you had. Like I said, the ones stated are mostly all good reasons for leaving a job. In an interview I woudld probably find them convincing. I also think it would be great to be able to say, for at least one job, "I stuck this one out and did everything I could, despite the odds stacked against it, because I really wanted to see something through." To you question specifically, I think having at least one job with a longer tenure would be a big improvement to the first-impression reaction most hiring managers would have to the resume.
- nicolapede 11y ago
  Thanks a lot for your answer, I found it really useful.

panjaro 11y ago

I don't get bored easily but If the company/boss doesn't show any sign of progress or doesn't explain what I'll be doing in next 6 months then it disappoints me. But not to the extent that I'd leave. Changing country and a desire to do a research degree were reasons for leaving 2 companies. After that I had no job and I took whatever came my way.