Comments on: Your Role at Work, and “Job-Hopping” http://www.corporateidealist.com/2009/07/your-role-at-work-and-job-hopping/ Hope for Hardworking Heroes Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:17:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher http://www.corporateidealist.com/2009/07/your-role-at-work-and-job-hopping/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:04:39 +0000 http://www.corporateidealist.com/?p=528#comment-200 I think this post raises some crucial and often painful questions. I've known several people who are exceedingly intelligent who don't stay in one place for long, and it does become an issue for other people's sense of "how committed/reliable/clear on purpose is this person?" I do think some of us are just not meant to be in one place for long, but I also think it is important to demonstrate a pattern of some kind of commitment. Maybe one has had 10 jobs in 10 years, but it might show a decade-long commitment to child welfare, or the environment, or organizational development. Employers invest big time when they hire, as you so clearly point out; it is certainly reasonable that they have some sense of what they are investing IN. I think this post raises some crucial and often painful questions. I’ve known several people who are exceedingly intelligent who don’t stay in one place for long, and it does become an issue for other people’s sense of “how committed/reliable/clear on purpose is this person?”

I do think some of us are just not meant to be in one place for long, but I also think it is important to demonstrate a pattern of some kind of commitment. Maybe one has had 10 jobs in 10 years, but it might show a decade-long commitment to child welfare, or the environment, or organizational development. Employers invest big time when they hire, as you so clearly point out; it is certainly reasonable that they have some sense of what they are investing IN.

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