Don't Blow Your New Job

摘要

Been getting a lot of calls from headhunters lately? Thinking about moving on to a new job? If so, you're part of a huge, restless crowd. Executive recruiters re-port a record number of new searches, and the upper-middle reaches of U.S. corporations are coming to resemble a vast game of musical chairs, with a constant stream of new faces and new nameplates on the doors. Increasingly, companies are looking outside for fresh talent rather than promoting from within. A survey of 700 companies by New York-based search firm Thorn- dike Deland Associates found that 70% are turning more than ever before to other companies for managers. If you're weighing three or four juicy job offers after years of just trying to hang on to what you've got, these are heady times.