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Boomers really don't understand job hopping people need to do to increase their salaries (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So yeah title says it all, currently around 8 months into a new hospital position and I've been extending my feelers out and doing job apps and got back invites to the start of preliminary interviews for some other jobs (mainly cuss there is likely going to be no significant pay raises for all us new hires until 2 years out so fuck that).

Bring this up to parents though and they have the weirdest attitude as though I'm betraying my company as well as shooting myself in the foot even though if I got some of these positions I'm interviewing for I'd see a huge pay bump and really good benefits (one of them is a state gig and has a damned good pension plan with only 5 years to be vested fully).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some interviewers definitely care about length of time at your previous jobs. I interview people for software development jobs and I'm a developer myself. I'm not going to pass up on someone for it or anything, but if a person has left a recent job in less than a year I want to know why. I don't want to spend 3 months getting someone up to speed on our project just to have them leave 3 months later.

For a lot of jobs you're right, no one cares, but for anything with longer training periods, licensing exams, or other upfront costs job hopping is a potential problem

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want to know why.

Yeah but this is a lie 100% of the time. lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if a person has left a recent job in less than a year I want to know why.

I had to... uhh... take care of a sick family member "full-time" (unsaid: it was myself). I'm a great wage slave, I promise!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Exactly. It's not regarded as a serious point of consideration in interview, in part because there's just 100 bigger priorities to interviewers and in part because the excuses are unquestionable even if they are always bs. Interviewers just have to accept the excuse in all cases because in some of them they might be true and there's so many excuses everywhere it's not worth a strike for them, therefore there is literally no issue with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm at 8 months, almost 9, and tbh my answer is going to be geared towards "I want to utilize greater aspects of my educational skillset towards project development outside of direct care interactions" or some shit like that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that seems reasonable to me. As long as the new job can meet the expectations. I'd expect a follow up about how you can accomplish that unless it's obvious by the type of job or whatever.