When the 10-Year Work Anniversary Is a Personal Failure
Millennials don’t view longevity as a career booster, unless they’re running the company.
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Job-hopping millennials are getting older. Unlike previous generations of young people who eventually settled into a company for long-term financial security, the generation born between 1982 and 2004 isn’t taking the bait, a new survey shows.
“It’s much easier to talk about your own growth and career trajectory if you express it as a literal journey between companies, rather than what you did at any one company,” said Mac Schwerin, a 27-year-old copywriter who has changed jobs three times in as many years to get promoted. “It’s easier to make the claim that you are the common denominator, that you are the one bringing successes with you wherever you go.”