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Fresh perspectives needed on job-hopping candidates

Given today's level of employee mobility, it's time for employers to shed old ideas about candidates with a history of short tenures and accept there are many reasons for 'job hopping', industry coach and commentator Ross Clennett says.

A candidate's short-tenured job history is not completely irrelevant, but "too much weight" is put on job-hopping when it comes to selecting candidates, he tells Shortlist.

"It's not the actual recruiters themselves, it's the clients having preconceived ideas about what stability in someone's employment history means in terms of the likelihood of being stable in the next job," Clennett says.

"There's research that indicates there's actually very little correlation between candidates previous work history stability, and the likelihood of them staying in the next job for any particular length of time...