英语阅读-一份工作做太久会被看作异类.docxVIP

美联英语提供：英语阅读：一份工作做“太久”会被看作异类？小编给你一个美联英语官方试听课申请链接：/?tid=16-73374-0/?tid=16-73374-0　Dear Annie:I’ve been working for the same company for 17 years and, now that we’ve been acquired by a former competitor, some of us are being offered voluntary early retirement severance packages. I’m tempted to take one, even though I’m nowhere near ready to retire.　But here’s my problem: When I first heard about the merger, I thought there would be significant overlap between the two companies’ employees, so I started a job search just in case. It’s going okay — I’ve gotten several interviews so far — but I’m running into an obstacle I didn’t expect, especially with younger interviewers. Every time someone notices I’ve been at one company for almost two decades (albeit with two promotions to bigger jobs and titles), he or she looks at me as if I have two heads. Is there a stigma attached to longevity now? How do I deal with this? — Loyal to a Fault　Dear Loyal:No one should apologize for staying with a good company for ‘too many’ years, says Patricia Siderius, managing director of executive outplacement services at global HR consulting firm BPI group. These days, not many people have the opportunity to do it.　Too true. In a weird reversal of the old, unwritten rules, frequent job changes have become not only more acceptable to hiring managers than they used to be, but almost expected, she adds. This is for three reasons. First, during the recession, necessity obliged so many people to move around that the old job-hopping stigma all but disappeared. At the same time, the information technology industry — where frequent job changes have long been the norm — has become the job market zeitgeist.　But the most interesting part of this shift is that it’s also partly based on a myth. Millennials, that huge (and hugely influential) generation born since 1980, are widely believed to switch jobs far more often than their parents did. It’s easy to see where that idea came from. The Bureau of Labor