Paul Godines from Adapt on a Dime Consulting
http://www.adaptonadime.com, writes:

If you're like many people you may have had a period of time in your
Career where you had too many job changes. You feel that you may be
perceived as chronic job hopper, a negative to many companies who
perceive a stable job history with a dependable, quality employee.

Selling Point number one is to consider your job hopping as paid
training for this new position, paid for by past employers.

Selling Point number two is that with your diverse experience you will
bring many other Skills, Knowledge and Abilities to the table none of
their other candidates could possibly bring.

Selling Point number three is that by being new you have no preset
habits and you can update your training by participating in all of the
newest courses which will benefit the Team immediately.

Selling Point number four is that you bring new and fresh insights from
a diverse set of employers and industries.

It is important that you begin with understanding the Selling points,
often those who have been job hoppers tend to feel inadequate. They
tend to look upon their Career as having some problems, due to the lack
of stability. When in fact your job hopping is your value, however you
need to believe in yourself, and you need to know how to sell yourself,
because if you don't believe in yourself no one else will either.

When discussing your previous positions observe how you describe that
experience. When asked about it do you complain, or criticize your
former employer? Do you defend yourself? Did you get hurt by the
experience and feel disgruntled enough to complain about them? If you
do any of these you need to stop IMMEDIATELY because your doing
yourself great harm. Even if you were fired you still have immense value
to thousands of employers, employers who are hungry to higher people
just like you.

Again you have to believe this fact yourself, if you are ever going to sell
it to someone else. Begin by collecting stories of experiences that you
enjoyed and times when you actually contributed significantly to your
employer. Stories that would have them ask you 'How did you do that'
that's when you will get employers and yourself to look past your job
hopping and see your value. Tell them stories about the many programs
you worked on, and the machines you helped build and the software
you worked with. This gets you focused on what you can do for your
next prospective employer and steers you away from your hurt and
disgruntled feelings.

Look inside yourself and find the excitement when you consider all the
opportunity ahead of you. When you find it share it with others, friends,
family and prospective employers, that's what they want a hungry and
highly motivated employee, someone like you.


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