Minimum time to stay in an entry level job?

fatp · #1 12-May-2008, 07:08 AM

Whats the minimum time to stay in an entry level I.T job?

My situation is:

It is a permanent job, has no scope for progression / salarly increase (flat hierachial structure), have learnt most the skills in the job, been there for about5 months... time to dust of the cv again?

???

FatP

Suttar · #2 12-May-2008, 10:22 AM

I would say there isn't a set time to stay in an entry level Job it differs from person to person.

Personally I stayed for 6 months, fired out my CV to several places and left not long after

The_Geek · #3 12-May-2008, 10:54 AM

I stayed in my entry level job for 2 1/2 years, because it was an easy job, ZERO stress and NICE pay. Then I went to work one day and couldn't believe how bored I was.

**BosonMichael** · #4 12-May-2008, 02:31 PM

There really is no minimum time. However, a prospective employer's gonna wonder why you're leaving your job after only 5 months. Just put yourself in the employer's shoes: if you were interviewing someone for a position, wouldn't you wonder?

I left my first IT job after 6 or 7 months... but my situation was somewhat different. I was working as a field service tech, and one of our clients needed a full-time tech. They liked the hourly-rate work I had done for them, so they asked my employer if they could hire me as a systems administrator.