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The Most Important Tip For Job Hoppers: Join People, Not Firms

Updated: 03/18/2021 by Financial Samurai 33 Comments

Now is the most exciting time for job hoppers everywhere. The economy is rebounding. The light is at the end of the tunnel for when the pandemic will end.

I’m convinced we’ll see more employee turnover across all industries than over the past two years combined. There are people itching to leave their firms for better opportunities all over the country. 

Are you one of them? If so, you need to know the most important tip for job hoppers.

Join People, Not Firms

The most important tip for job hoppers is: join people, not firms. Isn’t that the same you ask? No, and it is imperative you differentiate between the two. Joining great people means working with people you respect, and working for people who support you. 

Great people encourage each other to succeed.

Working with great people means not hitting the snooze button five times because you dread going to work. When you see people get promoted within the ranks, you cheer for them instead of secretly cringing with jealously. 

Use Caution When Joining A Firm For Its Prestige

Best tip for job hoppers

A great firm, on the other hand, can be entirely different. Procter & Gamble, Apple, McKinsey, Genentech, and Google are great firms in their respective industries. 

Getting a job at one of these institutions is like winning the lottery to some, and as such, they are “braggable firms” to your friends and loved ones.  Yet, I caution you to not blindly aspire to work for a place just for its prestige.

How often do we see people quit their dream jobs out of misery due to a bad boss or untenable work environment? They say that the average person changes jobs seven times in their careers. 

That can’t be pleasant and good for the nerves, can it?  You can work for Google, but if you’re in one department that has a lazy, demoralizing manager whose already worth millions and doesn’t care one lick about you, why bother?

Best Tip For Job Hoppers

My best tip for job hoppers on joining people, not firms involves being thorough. I encourage all job hoppers to insist on interviewing their perspective new employers as much as they interview you. 

When unemployment is high, that necessitates humility in your search.  But, humility is a given no matter what the unemployment rate is.

You owe it to yourself to meet as many people you potentially will work with as possible. The prospective employer wants to make sure you are a good match as well. 

No amount of prestige is worth being in a miserable state. Join good people and you will never want to job hop again! That is of course, until a better opportunity comes a long……….

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Author Bio: I started Financial Samurai in 2009 to help people achieve financial freedom sooner. Financial Samurai is now one of the largest independently run personal finance sites with about one million visitors a month.

I spent 13 years working at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. In 1999, I earned my BA from William & Mary and in 2006, I received my MBA from UC Berkeley.

In 2012, I left banking after negotiating a severance package worth over five years of living expenses. Today, I enjoy being a stay-at-home dad to two young children, playing tennis, and writing.

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  1. Kathryn C says

    April 23, 2011 at 8:45 am

    Hi! I think you can learn a lot from working for a bad boss or working with bad people. Long term, it doesn’t work, but if you’re at a good company and you’re getting what you want out of it (experience, savings etc), and can just tune them out and get your job done, it might be worth it.

    Also, you learn how to “manage up” (ie manage your boss without them knowing you’re managing them) and also you learn how to deal with loserville colleagues, and they’re every where in the world, so it’s a good skill to have. Things aren’t perfect all the time so we need to know how to manage the situation so people don’t drag us down.

    Granted, I’ve been told I’m good at “compartmentalizing”…. I”m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing…but it helps me get what I want to get done and not be bogged down by wackos at work.

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