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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4301277, member: 40"]
Loyalty is great, but it isn't always a two-way street.  I remember reading a study a couple of years back [Richard Boyatzis?] that ran counter to the mainstream thinking about staying at one company.  The study found that people who jumped had quicker upward mobility and made more money relative to employees who tried to ascend the ladder within one company.  That surprised me, but it was also rooted in old-school biases about having fewer jobs, the perceived valence of staying with one company as an indicator of "success," etc.

Times have changed.  People's ability to work remotely and not be locked into working for "local" companies near them has unlocked exponentially more opportunities.

And at the end of the day, I believe that the path of job hopping is important.  I.E., if I see a trend of upward mobility, even if the duration of the jobs are fairly short [i.e., 1+ year minimum], then I view that as indicative of the candidate's capabilities.  If I see someone making [U]lateral moves[/U] of similarly short durations, there's an attribution I make about their ability to play well with others.

That has to be balanced against the "cost" involved in identifying / hiring a good candidate, and then waiting for them to ramp up to a level of productivity when they arrive.  Nothing worse than going through all of the challenge of bringing somebody in, giving them time to get their sea legs, and then having them bail before any value proposition gets fully actualized.
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