When did you join your current Job? Year or two? Do you think this much time is enough to spend in one company? What is the right time to look for a new Job?

I was discussing this with my cousin last week, and it has been a topic to discuss with him since he is a loyal employee working for the same organization for last 5 years…

Most of the people do not know when to exactly look for a job change in this volatile job market specially the IT job market. In the initial days of your association with an organization you feel lucky and also feel that you deserve the position and the package that have been offered to you.

So what would be the reason for one to start looking for a new job, everything looks fabulous in the initial days of association with a company, you respect everybody in your team, your manager and super boss. You try to finish all the assignments/work items in time, or sometimes slog yourself to finish them in time, the energy and efforts that you put in the initial days will not lost forever. Slowly you feel losing the energy and interest to perform and show the same level of focus that you did in your initial days of association with the company, and you boss start comparing you with juniors/new entrants.

If you find any Or few of them matching with your current situation, then it is the time to make yourself ready for job shift. Watch for these symptoms occasionally in your career life.

• You are feeling comfortable in current roles!
• You’re not/over spending time at office with work?
• Your efforts and work are not noticed and recognized
• No new learning from the work!
• You are doing more than your role deserves!
• Your immediate boss didn't get promoted to next level in last two years?

You are feeling comfortable in current roles, if this is your symptom, you may be slowly closing your mind for new learning and experiences, this will lead to rust your skills and marketability of your resume. Over a time this will also build a fear inherently for not going distances in your career and stops taking new challenges in your current organization also.

You’re not/over spending time at office with work; obviously there is no question why would you not look for a change in either case.

At every level of job there would be a way to measure the performance, if you Or your manager not been recognized and appreciated for consecutive two years, it’s the time for you to look for a new job, why only you, why not your manager? Sometimes both!

If you are smart and quickly adapt to the role demands, you will outperform in that job in no time. As you outperform, your manager starts over pouring more work at you with a small token of appreciation, unknowingly you will fall prey for his tactics and try to out shine every task that has been given to you, and sometimes you slog in the office to show the same level of standards in the every work item that you deliver, that means you are over utilized and less paid.