Job hopping

[sunyseasider]

Hello all,

I've graduated three years ago in May with an IT degree and have being working as a java developer since then. I was orginally with a start up and stayed with them for year after graduating. I left for a major telecom company stayed there for five months when I returned to the startup company and stayed for a further 10 months. Anyway I've moved abroad to work in another software house in risk management for investment banks.

The problem is that I'm not liking the current role/lifestyle at all(the grass is always greener eh), I've been here only three months. I'm presuming that this would be a black mark on the CV if I went looking already.

Just interested to know peoples opinions - should I hold out for a year??

thanks

 

[huskerdu]

Iwould suggest that you decide what sort of work you want to do and stick with it for a while.
If you really dont like what you do, you should look for another job, but make
sure that you are moving for the right reasons, and that you have a good chance of staying in your next job.

If you keep job hopping, your experience will be come fragmented.
Employers in IT and SW are willing to pay for good experience, but you have
to stick with somehting to get experience.

 

[bb12]

I've had some experiences like this in my career. Some jobs I only stayed in for 5 months. At this stage, those companies are wiped off my CV and my time at the preceding or following company was extended a bit to cover the time loss. Never was questioned on it.

 

[Seagull]

I've had some experiences like this in my career. Some jobs I only stayed in for 5 months. At this stage, those companies are wiped off my CV and my time at the preceding or following company was extended a bit to cover the time loss. Never was questioned on it.

You've been lucky. All it takes is a call to the employer, and the discrepancy will be picked up, and your CV is off the list. Any company I've been employed at full time has given me a letter when I left stating the dates I was employed there. Depending on the industry you're in, this may or may not be the norm. Certainly, a number of companies ask for this before completing the hiring process.

 

[dam099]

I've had some experiences like this in my career. Some jobs I only stayed in for 5 months. At this stage, those companies are wiped off my CV and my time at the preceding or following company was extended a bit to cover the time loss. Never was questioned on it.

I would not extend dates like this as you could get caught out lying on your CV which is never going to be good.

For older jobs on the CV though I would not necessarily be overly precise about joining and leaving dates (e.g. date and/or month) but rather would just give years e.g. 1996-1997 I worked at X 1997 - 2000 I worked at Z.

You could have worked May to October 1997 in company Y and just leave it off. The dates you give in the above example for X and Z are still correct just not so specific.