Continuous Skills Improvement
In the current global and highly competitive world, the reality is that loyalty isn’t what it used to be. As an employee, you may want to display loyalty and commitments to your employer, but in many cases don’t expect it to be returned. The harsh reality is that companies and their managers are not loyal to employees. Yes, they may rely on you for the skill you can bring and appreciate you when it suits them. However, thinking they have your best career interests at heart is pure day dreaming. A basic survival tip is to rely on yourself and continue to improve on your job skills.
Although changing job had become the norm, you still need to be careful as you want to be in a favourable situation when you move towards a better pay or position. If you can make the case that the reason you are leaving a job is because your work with them is essentially completed from your perspective and that you are ready to transfer your skills to a new challenge, then why not?
Advantages of Job Hopping
There are numerous reasons job hopping can be good for your and when you change your career you also change your life. Let's begin by looking at the way multiple positions broadens your horizon. By working in a variety of settings you build a better and more realistic understanding of how companies run as a consequence of experiencing different work settings and cultures. Your network of contacts expands and your career portfolio grows. Together this deepens your knowledge of your profession and makes you a better-rounded employee.
Who knows where your future will be? Careers develop in a non-linear fashion and are likely to be a hybrid of competencies taken from many places. By adding diversity to your work history you open the future up to greater opportunity and possibilities. An additional value to having many jobs is the adaptability you develop. Employment maturity characterized by flexibility and an ability to change is more valuable than knowing just one organization's way of doing things.
If you know yourself to be a high-performer than expect your talent to be desired. You may find putting yourself into a strong negotiating position is enhanced by having an attitude you are willing to shop for the best employment opportunity at any given time.
Fear of Job Hopping
Despite the advantages of job hopping, why are there still many employees who are still afraid to job hop as a career development strategy?
Well, fear of course! You mind is probably going through a bad episode of the "What Ifs". What if managers think I'm unreliable? What if there is nothing better out there than the devil I know? What if I can't maintain the expensive lifestyle I've grown accustomed to?
Conclusion
So in addition to those questions ask yourself this: Am I a go-getter or not? Am I willing to take a risk to improve? Am I as good at what I do as I think I am? If you can answer "Yes!" to these questions than job hopping may be the plan for you.
