RGE with JH

joemc3

I am having an RGE moment Resume Generating Event. I am doing project management for a small company. The project itself is fun, taking them from excel and paperwork to a CRM system. If you have ever done this you know the amount of work that is. I have been here for 3 months. My plan is to get them into the CRM system and then bow out. I was sold a bill of goods on the position that are not close to the actual work. After the CRM I will not be doing formal PM stuff. I found this out recently.

The main issue is this is my 3rd job in a year and a half. It looks like I am jumping ship a lot. I did hold the same job for 14 years which looks good. Every new job has been a step up in some way. Anyone else have experience with job hopping and did it come up in interviews?

thomas_

I'm about in the same position as you. Had a job that was completely different than what it was made out to be. I stayed in that job for about 6 months and left then a temp job came up that looked better than what I was already doing. The temp job ended and now I'm moving to another location, so that gives me a little cover on reasons for switching jobs.

I think as long as you have a good reason and don't make a big deal about it then it's a thing that can be brushed over. If I'm asked on an application why I left a previous job I just put down to "pursue other opportunities". If I'm asked in a person or over the phone I just say that I felt that I learned about as much as I could learn in the position and wasn't growing professionally.

Bottomline, I think comes down to do you have what they need? If you have the skillset that a company is looking for and the experience they want, then they are going to look past the "job hopping" as long as you give them a reasonable explanation if they ask. I specifically avoid saying anything negative about the previous position and how the job was completely different than what I signed up for and turn it into a professional growth thing for why I left.