Publications
Publications
- Harvard Business Review
Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Abstract
The article focuses on career development and job change. The challenges, transaction costs, and risks associated with job moves are discussed. The authors' research with executives is noted. The mistakes in career development that job hunters make are not doing enough research on the job market, leaving a job for one that offers more money, job-hopping instead of career planning, overestimating one's value to an organization, and thinking in a short-term perspective. Questions that should be asked throughout the process of a job change are mentioned. The effect of psychological, social, and time pressures on a job move is mentioned.
Keywords
Change; Resignation and Termination; Job Search; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Strategic Planning
Citation
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010): 137–140.