[canyonero]

Personally, I wish we could stop judging individuals without understanding the context. There may be a million different reasons for someone that needs frequent job changes in a four year periods. Asking good questions to candidates will be far more informative and useful to the business than having a set of rules for dismissal or judgement.

Furthermore, the company is rarely/never accountable for swiftly laying people off individuals that may otherwise be excellent workers.

Frankly, if a company is discarding CVs based on perceived loyalty, then I perhaps those same companies to provide candidates with a contract reciprocates that loyalty via generous raises and job security.

[khazhoux]

> I wish we could stop judging individuals without understanding the context. There may be a million different reasons... Asking good questions to candidates will be far more informative

You won't even get to the "good questions" phase (i.e., get past the screening) if your resume is full of <1 year stints.

> Furthermore, the company is rarely/never accountable for swiftly laying people off individuals that may otherwise be excellent workers.

I've seen tons of resumes where people have done 12 companies in 10 years. think it's unlikely that was due to constant layoffs.

> Frankly, if a company is discarding CVs based on perceived loyalty, then I perhaps those same companies to provide candidates with a contract reciprocates that loyalty via generous raises and job security.

It's not about a noble ideal of loyalty. A person who leaves companies in 9-12 months is unlikely to have anything significant done in years (due to ramp-up time, etc). Not worth the risk to bring them onto your team, knowing their pattern is to be gone soon.

[Scubabear68]

This filter may seem unfair, but I have found several short stints on a CV to be a strong signal that they may be short lived with us, too.

[asdfman123]

Which is the completely obvious conclusion if you think about it from the company’s and not the candidate’s perspective.

[alkonaut]

> I wish we could stop judging individuals without understanding the context

"judging individuals without (enough) context" is basically what resume screening is, sadly. There may be 10 resumes that are otherwise equally strong, but one has this "issue". Then that issue might cost the opportunity to give more context. That's just how screening works.

[edmundsauto]

It's useful as a Bayesian prior. Repeated past behavior is a reasonable predictor for future behavior. There may be context that explains it, but hiring is really expensive and you want to get someone who will stick more than a year.

Leave a job per year for 4 years is at least a yellow flag to me.