Last week, we published career advice from Devex members, which included a warning to avoid frequent job hopping — particularly early in your career. However, as several people pointed out in the comments section, job hopping can at times be inevitable even if your goal is long-term employment.
With so much project-based development work, both short-term assignments and full-time positions are competitive. Many professionals find themselves frequently looking for new employment.
However, while frequent job moves may be inherent to the life of an aid worker, employers may view frequent job hopping as a red flag, indicative of someone who doesn’t know what they want, isn’t valued enough by an organization to promote or is unreliable.
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Kate Warren is the Executive Vice President and Executive Editor of Devex, where she leads a global team of journalists, event producers, and communications and marketing professionals to drive conversations around the most pressing and urgent issues of our time, including climate, global health, food security, philanthropy, humanitarian crises, and foreign aid funding. Through live journalism — via in-person and virtual events — along with insider news, analysis, podcasts, content series, and special reports, Kate and her team ensure the most important ideas, voices, and debates reach an influencer audience to drive impact and make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
