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Three factors that can pull a market player out of alignment are (1) frequent job turnover when jumping from one area to another, (2) prolonged unemployment, and (3) age.
Frequent job changes are, of course, typical of the younger generation. Newcomers to the job market come to test themselves, to taste different professions and positions. Today, conditions are particularly good due to a shortage of workers, an abrupt change of scales in favor of workers and the shortage of specialists in some areas (IT, digital marketing) so that practically anyone can occupy a position of work and at least do it.
Still, there are limits to job rotation. What is forgivable for a young man is no longer appropriate for a thirty-something. At the age of 40, there would be no need to change jobs or socks, as this is a direct path to career decline. If a young man who has tried various jobs and companies is employed with the idea that “he can stay with us,” then a person who has changed jobs for the tenth time does not give such hope.
At age 40, there would be no need to change jobs or socks, as this is a direct path to career decline.
It is probably correct to conclude that he is an unstable, maladjusted and most likely conflictive personality or that he has deficiencies that do not allow the establishment of a long-term employer-employee relationship. I have to hear excuses from employees that “I keep hitting the wrong company” or “again it turned out that the job is not for me,” but that doesn’t change the situation. Consequently, they cannot make the right decisions.
It must be recognized that employers in Lithuania are much more critical of unemployment gaps in candidate resumes than, for example, in Latvia. In the neighboring country, unemployment benefits are more favorable and higher, so it is quite common to rest and work quietly without work after leaving or losing a job for some time.
In Lithuania, periods of unemployment are considered quite critically and certainly reasonable. Research shows that after a year of unemployment, a person who has been re-employed does not work long at a new job, and the longer they have been out of work, the less likely the employment relationship is to be successful and sustainable. Sitting at home loses self-confidence, job skills, ability to work in a team, discipline. Therefore, both everyone and the State should make efforts to integrate the person who has lost their job into the labor market as soon as possible.
Research shows that a person who has returned to work after a year of unemployment does not work for a long time.
Silent discrimination against older people has been repeatedly spoken of in Lithuania. There are both subjective (employer beliefs, stereotypes about older people) and objective (speed, fit, salary expectations) reasons. Preparation for possible unemployment in old age should start early enough, starting at age 35. What should include such preparation:
- consider whether my profession will be necessary in the future;
- assess whether a senior professional in my field is competitive in the job market;
- What is my plan in the sense of profession B? If my specialty becomes redundant, what skills can I offer to the job market?
- if I became superfluous myself, what is my plan B: alternative income, my own business or a created job.
As for ship and aircraft accidents in the Bermuda Triangle, it was finally recognized that the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon simply does not exist. The percentage of ships and planes lost in this area is the same as in any other part of the world. While we cannot say the same about the job market challenges outlined above, it is certainly possible not to get caught up in the job market black hole and always think about what I can offer in the job market. When I ask people: and what competitions do you trade for rewards, there is often silence because it has never been thought about before.
Dr. Alisa Miniotaitė is an expert in management and leadership, founder of the Alisa Management Laboratory of the UAB, director of the Leadership Program of the ISM University of Management and Economics.
This comment was read on Knowledge Radio
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