in the 1970s, job hopping was likened to vagrancy and branded ‘Hobo Syndrome’ by industrial psychologists. As such, the practice has received a bad rap in many quarters; from recruiters and executives, but also to older workers for whom accruing career capital was a hallmark of professional life.However, these stereotypes may be outdated. In a tight labour market and an environment where companies show less and less loyalty to workers, many of those who job hop are reaping the rewards, gaining sizable pay rises and greatly accelerating their career progression.

Job Hopping And The HOBO Syndrome

Following the Great Resignation and subsequent hiring crisis, job hopping seems to have swelled even further. A Linkedin survey shows that 25% of Gen Zers and 23% of millennials said they hoped or planned to leave their current employers within the next six months. With greater choice, workers have had greater opportunities to job hop. There has also been a generational shift in attitudes towards work. The traditional model was to work for a company that would effectively decide your progression for you. Today, people are autonomous – they want to take control of their careers.

The Move Towards An Autonomous Career

In many cases, when workers job hop, they effectively take bigger strides down their career path. When people change jobs, they collect skills, abilities and knowledge they can use in a future role. A worker that’s job hopped will likely have a greater wealth of experience to draw from, leading to a wider variety of jobs and companies available to them. Workers often job hop because of slow internal processes at their company. Moving to a new job can be a faster and easier way to progress to the next level in a career.

Taking Big Career Steps, Faster

Given its prevalence, job hopping is no longer taboo. However, its acceptance is generally industry-dependent. In other sectors, while an occasional short stint is likely to be overlooked, a consistent pattern of job hopping – new roles around every year or so – may arouse suspicion among recruiters. Until younger workers who have job hopped climb the ranks to do the recruiting, hiring managers from older generations may be more likely to offer roles to those they believe will be loyal to an employer.

Making The Right Moves

Traditional thinking is that employees should stay at a company for the long term – or at least a few years. But many workers swiftly switching roles are earning greater career riches.

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The case for job hopping

<ul><li>Both Orthodox Easter and Easter Sunday are Christian festivals where believers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus - it's the most important festival in the Christian Calendar.</li><li>In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the preparations begin with Great Lent, 40 days of reflection and fasting, which starts on Clean Monday and ends on Lazarus Saturday (eight days before Easter Sunday and signifies the end of Great Lent, although the fasting continues into Holy Week).</li><li>Next comes Palm Sunday, one week before Easter, remembering the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, followed by Holy Week, which ends on E<warningtag>aster Sunday.</warningtag></li></ul>

What is Orthodox Easter?

<ul><li>Orthodox churches in some countries including Greece, Cyprus, and Romania base their Easter date on the Julian calendar.</li><li>The Julian Calendar was designed by Julius Caesar in 45 BC - basing a year on the time it takes the Sun to go around the Earth.</li><li>The Gregorian Calendar was created by Pope Gregory in 1582 to fix some of the glitches in the Julian Calendar as astronomy became more accurate.</li><li>Great Britain changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.</li><li>Also in the eastern Orthodox Church, Easter must happen after the Jewish festival of Passover - as in the Easter story, Jesus celebrates Passover bef<warningtag>ore his death.</warningtag></li></ul>

Why are there two Easter Dates?

Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter later than the Western Church - here's why.

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The biographies of these tech billionaires who achieved great success in their twenties have helped cement the perception that entrepreneurship is a young person’s game. Such stories are the exception rather than the norm. Starting young can have some clear advantages. For one thing, it gives you much more time to fail the several times most entrepreneurs do before they put it all together and succeed.But overall, the research suggests, older age is associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial success.

The Young And The Not So Young

That’s an important policy point for governments that want people to keep working (and paying taxes) longer even though employment prospects for job seekers decline significantly from about the age of 45.Rather than just putting money into “job-ready” programs or subsidies to employers to hire older workers, more should be invested into programs to support the demographic with the best chance of successfully starting new businesses.

The Middle-Aged Entrepreneur

New research suggests mature-aged entrepreneurship – after the age of 50 – is growing faster than among any other age group in Australia.Mature-aged entrepreneurs run about a third of all businesses that are less than three years old. (All up, mature-aged entrepreneurs have started about 380,000 businesses with a turnover of about A$12 billion a year.)

Older Is Better

Younger entrepreneurs do have some advantages. As a group, they are healthier and tend to have fewer family obligations. They may be less risk-averse, often because they have less to lose. They may also benefit from others’ positive perceptions of them as “youthful”.But mature-aged entrepreneurs have three key advantages: human capital, social capital, and financial capital.

The Youth Advantage Vs Mature-Aged Advantage.

Older entrepreneurs have accumulated business and life experience, knowledge and skills, social networks, and resources that better equip them for success. They tend to have better social skills and are better able to regulate their emotions, than those younger.They do have a lower risk tolerance than younger entrepreneurs, but that is offset by other factors, such as confidence in their abilities and experience. Their fear of failure is thus less than their younger counterparts.

The Research Findings

All evidence points to founders being especially successful when starting businesses in middle age or beyond, while young founders appear disadvantaged”.The “batting average” for creating successful firms rose dramatically with age. A 50-year-old founder was 1.8 times more likely to achieve “upper-tail growth” than a 30-year-old founder. Those in their early 20s had the lowest likelihood of success.

Experience Counts

Entrepreneurship may therefore be a viable alternative to mature-aged unemployment.There is, however, compelling evidence that aspiring mature-aged entrepreneurs require specialized government support and incentives, both to start their businesses and grow their businesses.Government initiatives such as the Entrepreneur’s Program (formerly the Entrepreneurship Infrastructure Program) and Entrepreneurs Facilitators, for example, could be better designed to account for the specific needs of mature-aged entrepreneurs.

Don't Look For A Job, Become An Entrepreneur

All evidence points to founders being especially successful when starting businesses in middle age or beyond, while young founders appear disadvantaged.

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Contrary to popular belief, middle-aged entrepreneurs do better

Logos can make people aware of your brand and help with discovery. But they can’t tell your customers who you really are unless you build meaning into them. Your brand is the experience your customers have and then tell their friends about.&nbsp; Despite their demanding presence, your logo is not your brand. Your brand is the experience your customers have and then tell their friends about. Despite their demanding presence, your logo is not your brand. Your brand is not the experience your customers have and then tell their friends about.

Forget about your f**king logo. Nobody cares.

“Why do I get out of bed every morning and go to work?” That’s what your brand should be built around.Great brands are built around a strong belief system and are driven by values. Take a quick look at Nike. Phil Knight had a vision that if everyone went for a run just once a day, the world would be a better place. The Swoosh is just a Swoosh; any emotional connection you have to it has nothing to do with the logo itself, everything to do with Phil’s original vision.

Brand should have a vision

Great brands are built from the inside out. Staff engagement is built into the process, not an Afterthought. When your staff are on board, the task of delivering a customer experience which reflects your brand purpose is a much easier one. If your staff don’t live and breathe your brand every day, your customers won’t have the desired experience. If your staff don’t live and breathe your brand every day, your customers won’t have the desired experience ..

Avoiding partial buy-in

Marketing has traditionally been the custodian of the brand. But Decentralisation is key to making a great brand.&nbsp;&nbsp; If only one department owns and controls the brand, then other departments simply don’t think about the brand because they have no attachment to it. A shared perspective will enable each department to take ownership of the brand in its own way.

It’s time to share the load

Somehow we’ve gotten into the mindset that a logo — this thing that does nothing more than identify us — is so incredibly important. We build our brands around them and when we get bored or when the…

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Basecamp is hiring a data analyst to help us make better decisions in all areas of the business.&nbsp;This includes everything from running A/B tests with statistical rigor to forecasting revenue for the year to tracing performance problems.&nbsp;You won’t be able to answer every question immediately or know how all the systems work on day one.&nbsp;We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences and identities.&nbsp;Today, our team works from 32 different cities spread across 6 countries.

Basecamp is hiring a data analyst

Here are some examples of projects you might work on: <ul><li>Keep us patient for a statistically significant result.</li><li>Identify when a Brute-Force Login attack started, quarantine the IP addresses involved. Write up the Forensics report at the end.</li><li>Software companies are starting to collect sales tax on software like ours. A Sales-Tax engine can help determine whether to buy or build a software.</li><li>Help product strategy analyze usage data to figure out whether a certain feature is working as intended, and if it is, who it’s important to. </li></ul>

About the job

Data informs almost everything we do at Basecamp, but ultimately we drive the company with our heart. The job isn’t about maximizing revenue or minimizing costs. You should be able to do both the technical and statistical work to answer questions like the ones in the examples above. A solid fundamental approach to analysis will pave the way.

Working On Data

We're committed generalists, eager learners, conscientious workers, and Curators of what's essential. We subject ideas to rigorous debate, but all remember that we're here for the same purpose. If you don't have a degree in theoretical statistics, that's not a Showstopper. While we currently have an office in. Chicago, you should be comfortable working remotely.

About Basecamp

Basecamp offers a range of benefits to help you lead a healthy life away from work. Benefits include 4-day summer weeks, a yearly paid vacation, a One-Month Sabbatical every three years, and allowances for CSA, fitness, massage, and continuing education. With two years under your belt, you’ll participate in our Profit-Growth sharing program.

About our pay & benefits

We value great writers, so please do take your time with the application. We'd like to hear about how you'd approach some of the example projects outlined in the description about the job. Don't send in a copy of war&amp; peace.

How to apply

Basecamp is accepting applications until Friday, October 12. we're eager to assemble a more diverse team. We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from Underrepresented groups at Basecamp.

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A bug in your code throws a cryptic error message into Google. The page loads and you've just begun skimming over the results. The aesthetic of the page combined with the "007 — your mission, should you choose to accept it" feel of this whole experience makes you feel like you’ve been drawn into a secret world.

The Foobar challenge: Google’s hidden test for developers

The unique thing about the Foobar challenge is that it finds you by tracking your search activity and matching it to known needs in Google’s engineering departments. The sudden visual disruption of something that is otherwise so constant&amp; Unchanging, the Google search results page, is Jarring enough to really draw you in.&nbsp;Given Google’s access to (1) your personal browsing activity and (2) the platform that you are browsing the Internet on, they really do have the perfect opportunity to snag talented people no matter where they are in a really direct and intriguing way.

Into The Rabbit Hole

You’re just sitting at your desk, minding your own business, trying to get some work done. Then, as inevitably happens, you hit a minor roadblock: your code throws a cryptic error message. “No…

The case for job hopping

Why are there two Easter Dates?

Contrary to popular belief, middle-aged entrepreneurs do better

Forget about your f**king logo. Nobody cares.

Basecamp is hiring a data analyst

Barbara Kennedy