Eight years on the job celebration

July 2, 2018

Introduction

It is the first time in my career I am able to stay in the same job more than eight years. I just had a great celebration to have a trip to Seattle in June 2018. Also I like to take some short time like 30 minutes or so to study how to manage my career.

How do I spend last eight years? What have I learned as a software programmer?

30 minutes study

Here is one article I plan to spend 10 minutes to read first.

Here is something I like to read first, and then search some keywords in Google.com.

One U.S. boutique firm specializing in IT evaluates candidates on two axes: stability and “performance and capability indicators.” Candidates have to score well on both to be selected for interviews. A consultant at another firm told me that a short stint—less than three years or so—probably wouldn’t be sufficient to produce any meaningful contribution to a firm and thus wouldn’t do much to demonstrate a candidate’s value. Search consultants also tend to interpret frequent moves as a sign of bad decision making, whereas long organizational tenure is rarely seen as reaching a plateau.

A short stint - less than three years or so. 

Search job hopping and then here is another article. 

 “When I see that someone has hopped jobs and gotten increasingly better titles with each new job, it’s a gigantic red flag for me as a hiring manager,” says Souza. “It shows me that they weren’t doing good enough work to get promoted within a single organization, so they had to climb the corporate ladder by continually going somewhere where they have no history.”

Here is the article with a video.