Job-hoppers Warrant Second Look, Experts Say

By Paula Burkes, Business WriterRoutinely ruled out as workplace hobos and bad investments for companies, “job hoppers” instead should warrant employers’ individualized consideration, according to a recent study. Without examining employees’ respective motives for frequent job changes, companies can miss opportunities to hire highly-motivated, confident, self-driven and often multi-skilled workers who want to climb the career ladder versus simply jump ship, researchers say. In an online nationwide survey of workers representing all ages and industries, climbers and jumpers, or escapists, were about even among some 500 respondents, Christopher Lake, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, told The Oklahoman in a telephone interview Wednesday. Their resumes looked the same, as far as the number of jobs they held and the number of years, or sometimes months, they held them, Lake said.Read more on NewsOK.com

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