How frequent is too frequent? Work change [duplicate]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

Short info - I'm an IT professional, worked in 7 companies so far, between 1 to 1.5 year each, all finished on good, friendly terms. Recently I started my first senior position, however I resigned after a month (it was long, horrible story of incompetent managers etc, but still, finished on a good terms). Now, I'm in the second company, a bit longer (6 months now), but it I feel another "festival of incompetence", and, more importantly, I feel I'm doing totally useless stuff which not only not pushes my skills and career forward, but effectively reverse them. The kind of a company run by people who worked there always, and despite they are "average employee" - their word is more important that managers. Most of the employees are really graduates who never have worked anywhere else, so whatever happens they don't really have a comparison. You probably know what kind of a feeling it gives - the whole world is wrong and stupid, but us.

Both companies have quite big turnover of employees, probably for the same reason I mentioned here.

And to my question - would leaving another job after a short period will be a problem with my further career? I've spoken with two recruiters so far and they told me that it looks pretty bad, whatever the explanation for leaving a job may be. Especially with the fact that it would be one after another. Would it be much better to "suffer" some more time, lest say another 6 months, simply for the sake of having "properly looking" entry in the resume?

manpreet 2 years ago

The explanation won't matter if you can't get to the interview. Staying for another half a year isn't going to change your statistics all that much.

Is it possible to leave off the one month job? This may be the rare case where a minor gap looks better than another job. You can explain the gap during an interview with the absolute truth if anyone asks, but at least you make the interview.

Another approach is to use a skills-based resume rather than a chronological one. This would emphasize experience over employers.

It's important to note that the average millennial in tech switches jobs about every 2.5 years. It's not like it used to be.