Are There Advantages to Job Hopping for Employees and Employers?

My dear classmate and Dr Siraje, Here i would like to share an interesting article that give me new perception about job hopping issue. It is written by a woman, so enjoy it:

As an employer answering the question of what is job hopping I would have to say if you didn't stick with a job for at least a year you are a job hopper. If someone gave me a resume with a different job every year on a continuous basis for two to three years I wouldn't hire them. I would know they wouldn't stay with my company either. Employers, especially small companies, do not like to see job hopping on a resume. A lot of the bigger companies that do temporary to permanent hiring will be more likely to hire you compared to a small company that wants to fill a position.

As an employee a job hopper is someone that hops jobs every six months, even though employers see it differently. As an employee I know changing jobs is sometimes the only way to get more money, better benefits, vacation, or just an environmental improvement. As an employee you can say if the employers would be honest and have better working environments you would stay. If you are a job hopper, instead of listing every single job you have had in the past year or two, as long as they are in the same field, you could put them in one category on your resume as Temporary positions without listing individual companies and list how long you have been in the temporary job market. For example, my husband had a run of bad luck about three years ago. He worked for several different plants within two years. These plants were also always hiring temporary to permanent positions. So on his resume it looked something like this:Temporary Positions Feb. 2004-Mar. 2006. Worked in various plants, forklift operator, packer, handler, shipping, receiving, etc.

The advantage to job hopping for an employer is seeing you have knowledge in different areas. Showing you can handle multi-type jobs is also a positive. It takes four years to get a degree to show you are capable of learning. Job hopping can show you are capable of learning different jobs in a matter of a year or two. You do however, need to give those jobs notice and be in good standing with them, so your future employer will see you left for your own personal reasons, whatever they might be.