Short Term Jobs on Resumes
I have a problem. When I am not writing about leadership topics, I provide consulting services to senior management and do selected senior management searches in a variety of areas. Again and again when I sit down with these executives to get details regarding a position they want to fill, I get one message loud and clear. They do not want to see any candidates that only stay in a job for a year or so and then move on. Yet, when I network for candidates, I see many, many resumes with just that kind of short term job history. One short term move, or maybe two, in this economy may have real valid reasons. But when I see several such short term stays, I put them in the discard pile because the employer has specifically said they don’t want to see them.
I have a variety of questions ….. Did they wear out their welcome and leave? Were they asked to leave? How can an indiviudal make a quality mark on an organization when they have hardly had time to know the people in the organization? In my book “Surviving & Thriving in the HR World”, I write about leaders becoming “Class Act” leaders. You know them. The people who stick in our memory as the kind of leader we would do anything for. Who is going to become a “Class Act” leader in a year on the job? In 40 years of being a people watcher, I have never seen one become that kind of leader in a year or two.
How about it? I need some input.
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