Context engineer in manufacturing. I’ve been at my current job for 5 months. It’s not great and I’m looking to move on. However, I want to stay long enough that I can have it on my resume without awkward questions. How long do you think that should be?
I would feel weird listing anything less than a year. I feel like it takes a year to really get up to speed on a job, in engineering anyway, before you’re out of training and really say if it’s for you. (I’m not talking about actually miserable conditions like bad team, bad safety, etc.)
3 to 6 months but in my work I look to do something in the first week and something of significance in the first month. The reason I give a range is because I want to be able to list a major accomplishment, initiative, etc that I helped make happen and that usually should come about by 6 months. So like my last job was 4 years but it had three major arcs that have a fair amount of initiatives and accomplishments in them (especially the middle arc which was a big project)