Here are some of the reasons that some people change jobs every 5 years +/- a few years:
- Discovery. A new job provides opportunity to learn a new industry, skill or even perspective. You are finding and developing your areas of interest by tackling the unknown.
- Good things come from putting yourself out there. Opening yourself up to a range of individuals and networks has a huge professional advantage.
- It teaches you how to take a calculated risk.
- It pays. Career advancement and more money.
- No one will judge you.
- It’s a reflection of the new workplace reality. The whole workforce in this country is becoming a flexible workforce.
- The Peter Principle. The Peter Principle suggests that many organizations promote their employees to positions that they are not actually capable of doing – and that’s where they stay.
- Your reputation. To develop a broad range of experience.
- Survival. A broad skill-set reduces your chances of being caught in an obsolete or shrinking field, and provides a life raft.
- Firm Policy / Necessity. Some firms have a built-in culture of turnover. For example, it is well known that large accounting firms hire a lot of young people to do their auditing and expect at least half of them to move on.
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