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I was hoping for some snowesters to chime in on this one. A good friend of mine stumbled across a job he is really interested in, but doesn’t know if he should pursue it or not. He asked me for some advice because I have had two positions where I did interviews and hired/fired associates. However, I haven’t come across a situation like his though and my gut feeling is to tell him to go for it, but that’s just my opinion. He graduated from college in Dec of 07 and took a job in Jan 08 in northern MN to get away from eastern SD where he grew up and went to college. After 9 months of that job he started looking for jobs back in eastern SD again so he could be closer to home.
He had a hard time making friends in MN and also had some personal issues at home that made him want to move closer. The company he was working for up there was also dealing with some financial issues and has since gone under. He ended up taking a full time job for a company he used to work for in college as a student. His first job in MN was as an engineer and then was switched to a production supervisor; he was at that company for a total of 10 months. He went back into engineering when he moved back here and has been doing that for a year; he had 4 years experience in engineering while in college with this company before he graduated. Now has his eye set on aproduction management job in the same city he is currently employed in.
He wants to pursue that job for a few reasons: 1) the money would be considerably better, $10k or more better 2) he is starting a family and his wife is 4 months pregnant, he would really like to be able to support them for a few years on just his salary alone so his wife can stay home but he would need to make that extra $10k to do it 3) most importantly, he really enjoyed his supervision roll before and isn’t really sure if engineering is meant for him even though that is what his degree is in. His concern is if his 2 job changes the last 2 years will look bad on his resume, and that applying for new job will somehow get back to him negatively if he doesn’t get the job and someone with his current employer finds out he was thinking about jumping ship.
My take is he has great references at all his positions, he put in a 2 week notice at his last job and stayed on for a month after putting in his recognition to help the company out as much as possible, he bought a house in his current town and knows this is where he wants to stay for number of years. I believe if you look at his situations of why he changed jobs, they are all very valid….however I don’t know if other people will see that or see a person that can’t make up their mind and that might move on after a year leaving them with the expense of training a new employee. Any thoughts? Thanks!
He had a hard time making friends in MN and also had some personal issues at home that made him want to move closer. The company he was working for up there was also dealing with some financial issues and has since gone under. He ended up taking a full time job for a company he used to work for in college as a student. His first job in MN was as an engineer and then was switched to a production supervisor; he was at that company for a total of 10 months. He went back into engineering when he moved back here and has been doing that for a year; he had 4 years experience in engineering while in college with this company before he graduated. Now has his eye set on aproduction management job in the same city he is currently employed in.
He wants to pursue that job for a few reasons: 1) the money would be considerably better, $10k or more better 2) he is starting a family and his wife is 4 months pregnant, he would really like to be able to support them for a few years on just his salary alone so his wife can stay home but he would need to make that extra $10k to do it 3) most importantly, he really enjoyed his supervision roll before and isn’t really sure if engineering is meant for him even though that is what his degree is in. His concern is if his 2 job changes the last 2 years will look bad on his resume, and that applying for new job will somehow get back to him negatively if he doesn’t get the job and someone with his current employer finds out he was thinking about jumping ship.
My take is he has great references at all his positions, he put in a 2 week notice at his last job and stayed on for a month after putting in his recognition to help the company out as much as possible, he bought a house in his current town and knows this is where he wants to stay for number of years. I believe if you look at his situations of why he changed jobs, they are all very valid….however I don’t know if other people will see that or see a person that can’t make up their mind and that might move on after a year leaving them with the expense of training a new employee. Any thoughts? Thanks!
