4 Pieces of Career Advice You Should Never Take
Think of the most successful people you know and
the people you aspire to be like. Did they follow conventional wisdom? Did they
walk well-worn paths? Most likely, the most successful people are also the ones
who blazed their own trail and threw conventions to the wind.
But we’re still much too likely to listen to the same
tired advice we’ve heard over and over again when it comes to our career. Oprah
probably wasn’t following this kind of advice when she rose to prominence as a
talk show host and tastemaker. Mark Zuckerberg clearly wasn’t following the
maps left in career advice columns when he started Facebook wearing his
signature hoodie.
The most successful people are those willing and
able to think outside the box. So why are we still following the same career
advice? Here are four pieces of advice you’ve probably heard over and over
again, and why it might be time to hit mute:
No one wants to hire a job hopper
Have you ever heard the one about the job hopper
no one wanted to hire? Conventional wisdom says employers just don’t want to
hire job hoppers for fear that, if they’ve hopped once, they’ll be more likely
to leapfrog away again.
Truthfully, however, job hopping is our future. The
U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics estimates the average tenure in a position to
be 4.4 years. This number might even be trending down, with 91 percent of
Millennials expecting to be at their current jobs for three years or less. Most
importantly, prior job hopping doesn’t seem to have any predictive influence on
future behaviour or productivity. A study by Evolv found prior tenures at past
organizations had little correlation with how long an employee stayed at a
current position.
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