Why millennials do benefit from job hopping

Parents and teachers are doing their best to give us advice based on the workplace culture they lived through, but for many industries the landscape we work in today is a great deal different.

[dunkonomics]

These companies are about making money, and finding value in workers. Job hop if your skills are valuable to different companies, add more good skills as time grow, and you are able to adapt to certain situations that benefit you.

[kavinsky]

I'm in enterprise software development, and I am a millennial, and I have seen this everywhere, too. I got about a 20% raise for my first job hop, and I'm about to hop again to about a 10% raise with a more senior position. I've seen someone take as much as a 30% raise to job hop. Loyalty is totally dead. We just had layoffs and someone with 35 years at the company got a tap on the shoulder and were escorted out of the building - didn't even get to collect her stuff.

[mykaelos]

I love your videos Chris, and I love the diversity of topics.

I agree that it's hard to change other people's perception of you when staying at the same company, and it can effectively create a ceiling of advancement there. It's especially easy to get trapped in a routine without even realizing it. I've been with the same place for 8 years now, and I've realized in the last year that this probably has slowed my career trajectory and personal growth (the same daily routines don't advance new skills and ideas).

The "perception ceiling" isn't obvious until you've been at the same place long enough to realize it's there. Thanks for calling it out and reminding me to see what else is out there.

[dhruvbhatnagar]

This is such an insightful video. Chris, I can't even begin to express how your example about companies unwilling to promote from within and always seeing their entry level workers as incapable of taking on leadership roles, resonated with me. This parallel from the game development industry seems like the story of my life - and I am a 20s something lawyer !

[ceven]

I personally have gone through some of these workplace scenarios. Thank you so much for sharing this information!!! Please continue your much needed commentary.

[coddiwomple]

Many Baby Boomers stay in the same job for many years if not their entire career. The good is that these people are usually very good at their specific job from all the years doing the same thing over and over. The bad is that these people are not good at learning new skills. They are very set in their ways. If they lose their job and take on a new job they struggle to adapt because they don't have wide experiences to draw upon. I would prefer to hire a person with multiple 2 years jobs experience than a person with 15 years in only one job.

[azrael]

Being a millennial, I can definitely say what you said resonated to me. I've actually been having thoughts on this particular topic! I had this consideration of job hopping but ultimately came to a never ending dilemma when the older generation constantly hammers how that's not a good thing to do. The perception of someone always being green from senior's view sure is a great point that never came across my mind.

Thank you very much for making such a video. Stay awesome! :)

[gladier]

I work construction i started at $12 and hour and hopping from company to company has gotten me up to $27/hr but i also didn't burn those bridges at the other companies i worked at and they'll still hire me back

[ISILENTNINJAI]

I hate job hopping. But when I get a 1% raise while inflation is 8+%, I'm left with no choice.