So yeah title says it all, currently around 8 months into a new hospital position and I’ve been extending my feelers out and doing job apps and got back invites to the start of preliminary interviews for some other jobs (mainly cuss there is likely going to be no significant pay raises for all us new hires until 2 years out so fuck that).
Bring this up to parents though and they have the weirdest attitude as though I’m betraying my company as well as shooting myself in the foot even though if I got some of these positions I’m interviewing for I’d see a huge pay bump and really good benefits (one of them is a state gig and has a damned good pension plan with only 5 years to be vested fully).
Yeah I have absolutely no qualms about saying ignore your parents, they’re completely wrong.
Some interviewers definitely care about length of time at your previous jobs. I interview people for software development jobs and I’m a developer myself. I’m not going to pass up on someone for it or anything, but if a person has left a recent job in less than a year I want to know why. I don’t want to spend 3 months getting someone up to speed on our project just to have them leave 3 months later.
For a lot of jobs you’re right, no one cares, but for anything with longer training periods, licensing exams, or other upfront costs job hopping is a potential problem
if a person has left a recent job in less than a year I want to know why.
I had to… uhh… take care of a sick family member “full-time” (unsaid: it was myself). I’m a great wage slave, I promise!
I’m at 8 months, almost 9, and tbh my answer is going to be geared towards “I want to utilize greater aspects of my educational skillset towards project development outside of direct care interactions” or some shit like that
