Importance of Changing Job – From Growth Perspective

There is a famous terminology “Job Hopping” prevalent in the industry. Job hoppers are pariah for some of the companies however many see this as a boon for their bottom-line growth. You may think about how that is possible!! I have delved deeper into this to find a variety of reasons.

Avoid Repeated Work: In your current organization, you may find that you are doing repetitive work and you are not able to add value to it as the system and process are mature enough to accommodate changes. You are only continuing it because you are comfortable and do not want to take up new challenges. This makes it difficult for you to develop a skill of getting a job early. So if you join a new organization then you can add value to the current process by bringing in a new perspective.

Need to prove that you are among the best: Once you move to a new organization you have to prove your mettle by working smarter than others. As against your existing organization where everyone knows about you and your potential. In order to do this, you tend to implement all the productive things you have learned in your previous organization.

Get learning challenges: You undergo innumerable training specific to the new company and your role. You concentrate and learn new things at one go and become productive at the earliest. In your current organization for the same role, you may not get new or very few training to enhance your existing skills to the next level. No more challenges you find in your role within 3 years.

New people and processes: You get the opportunity to learn new processes and get to know new people as against your existing organization where you know the loopholes and intentionally avoid difficult corners and find the easy way out.

Learn new skills: No roles are the same in two different organizations. Somewhere or other you find a difference and you get the opportunity to learn the same thing in two-three different ways.

Eye on the higher ladder: You also move vertically up in the level when you switch one company to another which in general is very cumbersome in the same organization. This is more common in blue-chip companies as they have hundreds of employees and they cannot give promotions to their employees every alternate year.

Internal Politics and Apple of Eye syndrome: You may be a kind of “work smart and earn accolades guy” but you may become a victim of office politics and someone being manager’s apple of the eye. This hinders your career growth if you continue in an organization for quite long.

Monetary growth: This is one of the most important aspects of an individual’s career. It is found that people continuing in the same organization has lesser compensation than the one who changes for growth. Because they are ready to give more than 100% and prove that they are worth getting more remuneration because they bring fresh knowledge, enthusiasm, and overall, the hunger of getting success and move forward. Which improves the company’s efficiency, quality, and productivity and ultimately becomes a boon for companies for their bottom line growth.

So finally it’s the individuals choice to decide if he/she would like to either switch internally or explore outside. Either case you will get the benefit of “Importance of Changing Job – From Growth Perspective”!!