Job Hopping
Building Hidden ‘Mobility Benefit’
A history of job changes could be a red flag on a résumé, or it could signal a job candidate with an important “mobility benefit” that will help them begin a new job, says new research from Rebecca Kehoe ’05, M.S. ’08, Ph.D. ’10, professor of human resource studies at the Cornell University ILR School.
“People experience a decline in performance when they change organizations, but eventually they are bouncing back,” said Kehoe. “We were interested in better understanding the implications of these experiences over time.”
Kehoe found that the more often a person starts a new job, the better they get at it: Their initial performance drops less, and they come up to speed more quickly.
Kehoe is first author of “Movin’ and Groovin’! Increased Prior Mobility Facilitates Newcomers’ Transitions Into Organizations,” published by the Academy of Management Journal in March. Her co-author was F. Scott Bentley, assistant professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.
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