Eric Siu explains why frequent job-hopping, like changing jobs every 1-2 years, is a major red flag when hiring. Look instead for candidates with multi-year tenure and multiple promotions, though staying long at one company without advancement is also a warning sign.
If someone's hopping around every 2 years, they're probably not that good at their job. 1 year for sure, they're not that good at their job, right? Let's say it takes 6 months to onboard, another 6 months to kind of figure things out. Maybe like it takes another year to really see if that person's got it. You know, there's a handful of warnings, things like that. If it's a big company, it's hard to kind of, you know, spot those people sometimes. So it might take a year or 2 years. And so if someone's job hopping all the time, 2 years, that's not a very good sign. So you want someone that's maybe stayed at a company a couple years, 3, 4, 5, 6 years plus. And you want to see a history of promotions, ideally 2 promotions, right? Or maybe even 3 promotions plus, because then it shows that company actually valued them and they not only kept them, but they had a history of promotions. Because I can tell you that we've hired people from big companies that have worked there for 10, 15 years or so, but maybe they only got promoted once. And then we found out very quickly, okay, maybe there's a reason as to why they're only promoted once.
