The Strategic Case for Changing Jobs: Four Good Reasons to Change Jobs Within the Same Industry Three Times During Your First Ten Years of Employment

There are many deeply personal reasons to change your employment situation. However, from a purely strategic point of view, there are four good reasons to change jobs within the same (or similar) industry three times during your first ten years of employment:

Reason #1: Changing jobs gives you a broader base of experience: After about three years, you've learned most of what you're going to know about how to do your job. Therefore, over a ten year period, you gain more experience from "three times 90 percent" than "one times 100 percent."

Reason #2: A more varied background creates a greater demand for your skills: Depth of experience means you're more valuable to a larger number of employers. You're not only familiar with your current company's product, service, procedures, quality programs, inventory system, and so forth; you bring with you the expertise you've gained from your prior employment with other companies.

Reason #3: A job change results in an accelerated promotion cycle: Each time you make a change, you bump up a notch on the promotion ladder. You jump, for example, from project engineer to senior project engineer; or national sales manager to vice president of sales and marketing.

Reason #4: More responsibility leads to greater earning power: A promotion is usually accompanied by a salary increase. And since you're being promoted faster, your salary grows at a quicker pace, sort of like compounding the interest you'd earn on a certificate of deposit.

Many people view a job change as a way of promoting themselves to a better position. And in most cases, I would agree. However, you should always be sure your new job offers you the means to satisfy your values. While there's no denying the strategic virtues of selective job changing for the purpose of career leverage, you want to make sure the path you take will lead you where you really want to go.

For instance, there's no reason to change jobs for more money if it'll make you unhappy to the point of distraction. In fact, I've found that money usually has no influence on a career decision unless it materially affects your lifestyle or self-identity.

To me, the "best" job is one in which your values are being satisfied most effectively. If career growth and advancement are your primary goals, and they're represented by how much you earn, then the job that pays the most money is the "better" job.

Current Job / Advancement Opportunities

Due to confidentiality issues with our clients, more specific information about the positions cannot be given in this newsletter. For more information on any of the positions you see, contact us directly at the number or email address listed below. You may also put forth your resume for consideration for any of these positions via our web form at http://www.nerisearch.com/resumeform.html

Process Engineer - Industrial Minerals

Production Superintendent - Industrial Minerals

Mine Engineer- Industrial Minerals & Aggregates

Mill Metallurgist

Project Engineer

Process Engineers - Minerals

Process Engineers - Cement

Plant Manager - Minerals - Midwest , Mid-Atlantic and Southeast

Assistant Plant Manager - Minerals - Mid-Atlantic and Southeast

Maintenance & Engineering Manager - Cement

Maintenance & Engineering Manager - Metal Fabrication

Project Manager - Minerals - SW

Mine Manager - Non-Metallic Minerals - SE, SW, Rockies , NW

Clay Geologist

EH&S Manager - Minerals





A service to potential candidates who want to be informed of on-going and new high-profile job / advancement opportunities. You are on this list because you subscribed via our website at: http://www.nerisearch.com

To unsubscribe from our newsletter at anytime, please visit our website at: http://www.nerisearch.com and use the same form you used to subscribe.

Know others like you who share the desire to advance

their career and change their life? Let them know about NERI and the NERI newsletter. We're constantly seeking qualified candidates to fill current and future high-profile jobs / advancement roles.

NERI

8361 Sangre de Cristo Road, Suite 150

Littleton, CO 80127

Phone: 800-886-7672 or 303-933-7361

Fax: 800-728-5797 or 303-933-0212

http://www.nerisearch.com

currentopenings@nerisearch.com

CONFIDENTIAL - This email and any files transmitted with it contain privileged and confidential information. Use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, or any information contained herein, by or to anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited and subject to legal restrictions and penalties regarding its unauthorized disclosure or other use. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by reply email or phone and destroy all copies of this message and all attachments that are in your possession, custody or control. Thank you.

Equal Employment Opportunity
NERI policy dictates that Applicants are referred to Employers without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status or any other status protected by law.