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their careers to find their dream
careers
in this video i'm going to lay out five
major benefits
of job hopping if you're a millennial or
if you are in your 20s
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way around hi I'm Dr. Jon Tam I have a phd in sociology from the
university of oxford and i'm passionate
about helping millennials find their
dream careers
through gaining career clarity or
building style skills
so without further ado here are five
reasons you stand to benefit
as a job hopper in your 20s benefit
number one it's a new normal i'm not
going to elaborate too much about this
but check out my previous video on job
hopping and why it's totally normal
and also check out my video on career
change mindset
essentially you need to frame it
properly you are always looking for a
new opportunity
to grow and you are looking for bigger
projects
to work on so in your 20s that's the
best thing to do because
you want to build the experience build a
portfolio
build your skill set so that you can
move on to bigger and greater things
and to be super honest if you're in your
20s you are at an
entry level and no one's really going to
give you big projects
at the get-go so it's about proving your
work proving your value by building
those skill sets
so that you can deliver at a high level
when you get your late 20s or your early
30s and that's really when all the
opportunities
that are in the mid level start showing
up because at the entry level
no one's going to be giving you too much
because you really have to pay your dues
so remember
to frame it properly you are looking for
new opportunities to grow
you're looking for bigger projects
you're looking to build that skill set
and essentially it's about building the
skills for your career
rather than looking for titles because
titles are honestly always changing and
at the rate
that creative destruction is going in
the job market there are a lot of jobs
out there
that haven't even been created yet that
you may be working in in the near future
so definitely keep that in mind the
second thing to keep in mind about job
hopping in your 20s is that
not all job hopping is the same if you
switch
jobs every six to 10 months that's one
thing
versus switching jobs every two to three
years every two to three years
is super normal and if you are in a job
and you've worked there for two to three
years and you feel like super
comfortable and you're just kind of
coasting
then you really need to get over
yourself because there's always
bigger and better challenges out there
20s is not the time to fall behind
in the hustle i'm not telling you to go
like full out hustle life gary v style
what i'm saying is essentially you need
to pay your dues you need to learn and
you need to close that skill gap because
the moment you start relaxing on those
skills
what's going to happen is that 10 years
later if you're still working on that
entry-level job
and your peers have moved on to trying
different projects and they've been job
hopping in a meaningful way
what that means is that you're going to
feel behind because you've been doing
the same thing
for 10 years straight and meanwhile your
peers may have
had tried this that and that and
they may have so much experience and
their network would be much more broader
so that's definitely something to keep
in mind when you
are looking at job hopping don't get too
comfortable you got to stay hungry in
your 20s
and one of the things is that you will
be building skills so you need to build
the soft skills
early because the higher you go the more
soft skills you need so check out my
video on what are soft skills which i'll
put in the cards above but essentially
hard skills are what gets your foot
through the door but soft skills is what
helps you climb the corporate ladder
i'm not saying they're mutually
exclusive but soft skills become
increasingly important as you go
on the third thing is that top
performers
are frequent job hoppers they typically
leave every two to three years on
purpose
and move on to another challenge they've
seen the world they have different
frames of references they identify
patterns among people
they know how to navigate politics
because they've seen the patterns
play out several times they also don't
have a fixed mindset
because what that means is when you go
out in the world and you see patterns
what happens is that you learn quicker
in the book make it stick
it's basically a book about learning and
you know how people
really retain knowledge what they've
observed is that
if you show someone 1 000 pictures of
picasso's painting
versus you show them 1 000 pictures of
different painters
in that era and then you tell them who's
who what they found is that the person
who receives many different paintings
they
are able to pick out picasso's drawing
even better
than a person who only sees picasso's
painting
and the reason for that is a lot of
different case studies that they're able
to observe
and pretty much figure out that hey this
is what makes picasso pop compared to
everyone else
and high performers are job hoppers
because well they've seen the world
they've seen different patterns play out
in the workplace
and that also transfers into soft skills
as well
and this is called space repetition and
interleaved learning and essentially
they figure out that there are multiple
ways of doing things there's more than
one way to skin a cat
and you learn how to deal with different
situations like saying no to your boss
because you've seen many different
bosses so for example some people that i
work with they struggle saying no and
they're setting boundaries in the
workplace
and i have videos on that which i'll put
in the cards above and the descriptions
below
such as one on saying no to your boss
and another on setting boundaries with
co-workers and these are typical
problems that people experience if they
stay comfortable
in one position too long and they don't
really
job hop every two to three years to see
what's out there do you agree that job
hoppers are top performers
let me know in the comments below
another major benefit of job hopping in
your 20s is that you will
find your passion faster and i talk
about this
in my video up above where i talk about
finding your career passion in your 20s
but essentially by tasting a lot of
different things that are out there
you are able to identify hey what are
the things that
put me in a state of flow what are
things that inspire me what are some
things i can sit down and work on for
four hours but it literally feels like
30 minutes
and that's where you find like hey this
is what i'm passionate about
this is what i do not like so back when
i was teaching i figured out very early
that
i hate sitting down and grading i hate
reading essays
and i love talking and i love teaching
and i love interacting with people
which is why i'm doing more of that in
my current work rather than sitting down
and grading stuff because that really
you know kills any joy that i have in
life if you want to figure out what
inspires more in your career
check out the free guide which i'll put
in the description below you can also
check out the career personality test
which i'll also
put in the links below another major
benefit of job hopping in your 20s is
that
it increases your income the average
internal
raise that a person will get is
typically approximately three percent
the average
per jump is a 10 to 20 raise per jump
so if internal promotions are not an
option
the job hop is probably the best way to
get you up to market rates
and sometimes there are just structural
things that get you stuck right the
typical progression of anyone in the
workplace is that they start
in an entry level and what happens is
that they have a manager
and if the manager gets promoted or
moves on to do something else
then something opens up and you have a
chance to move on
now what if structurally that manager
does not move anywhere
right what happens is that well you will
get stuck underneath
and essentially you will never have the
opportunity
and you're waiting for something to move
on that's totally out of your control so
therefore it's important for you to
instead of waiting just for an
opportunity to open up
you hop on to current openings and along
the way
make sure you don't burn your bridges so
that you can always go back and one good
way to figure out whether
it's time to hop or not is essentially
check out salary.com or payza.com or
payscale.com more of a linkedin salary
tool look at the pay for someone at your
level if you find that you're falling
behind or you're about you're not even
at the average level
maybe it's time to make a hop and with a
simple hop you can
make the case that hey i deserve more
hey
my skills are now updated i should be
here if an internal move is not possible
then hopping somewhere else is an
amazing way to get you
up to market rates and of course if you
don't burn bridges you can always go
back finally
the last major benefit is that if done
properly job hopping actually helps you
build a very powerful professional
network
because what happens is that not only
are you job hopping
and you're meeting new people and you're
creating new connections if you're
tactful about networking and
really deliberate about creating these
connections and not only
networking when you need to it feels
slimy because when you reach out you're
asking for something and that's what you
know everyone can smell that coming a
mile away
but if you are networking regardless of
your situation what that means is
when the time comes up people are
willing to help you
and you gotta think of it this way it's
give and take when you are building a
professional network you are not
only asking people for stuff people may
ask you for stuff
if you create a connection and they want
to make a hop in the future
they'll be like hey john i haven't
talked to you in a while i'm looking to
make a move
anything open on your end what does it
look like over there they may reach out
so therefore
these networks are powerful give and
take relationships
and if done properly job hopping helps
you build
a very powerful professional network
very early in your career
and so it's super helpful and these are
the five major benefits of job hopping
in your 20s now if you've done your fair
share of job hopping and it's not the
good type it's not the good
two to three year type it's kind of like
the six to eight months type where you
keep leaving jobs
it may be because you really don't know
what you want to do with your career and
you are lacking that career clarity if
that's the case i would recommend you to
check out my free training
called stop feeling stuck find your
dream career and i'll put it in the
links below so that
you can check it out also like i said
you can download the pdf on how to find
your dream career
you can also take a career personality
test which i've also included in the
links below also make sure to join my
facebook group to be in a community of
people who are interested in making
their careers work for them
instead of the other way around now as i
suggested in this video job hopping has
its advantages but
over doing it also has its disadvantages
in my next video i'm going to talk about
the disadvantages so make sure you
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