Record Interest in Changing Jobs. Which Industries Are Most at Risk for Turnover?
Waiters, bartenders and construction workers – these three job groups have the highest employee turnover, according to LiveCareer’s analysis of 749,000 CVs prepared by users over the past year. They are generally young people (their average professional experience is 7.5 years) who have worked in three positions so far – often in three different companies, since they changed jobs on average every 2.5 years.
According to Małgorzata Sura, an expert at LiveCareer, such a frequent change of employer (every two to three years) should not come as a surprise among young candidates who are looking for a direction of professional development. Flexible employment, which is common in some industries, also encourages job changes. According to the Randstad Labor Market Monitor (MRP), people employed under a contract for services or a contract for specific work are most likely to look for a new employer.
In spring this year, as many as 19% of them were actively looking for a new job, compared to 12% in the entire group of MRP participants. This record result since the Covid pandemic was also increased by people employed on fixed-term contracts (14%), while among employees with stable employment, only one in ten was actively looking for a new job.
As Mateusz Żydek, spokesman for Randstad, points out, the actual staff turnover depends mainly on the situation on the labour market, which is not the best at the moment; the availability of attractive job offers is much lower than a year or two ago.
Flexible employment is common in industries with high seasonality, including construction and the hospitality and catering industry (HoReCa). It’s no wonder that LiveCareer’s analysis shows that construction workers, waiters, and bartenders are in the top three most unstable occupations, with workers changing employers more often than every two years. (Waiters and bartenders change employers almost every year.)
Among the professions with low stability there are also young lawyers who work on average for 1.5 years in one firm.
Programmers are currently the ones who stay with their employers for the long term, with an average of almost eight years of experience and three jobs listed on their CVs. LiveCareer classifies them as one of the most numerous groups of professions with medium stability, where jobs change every 2-3 years. This group also includes architects, clerks, salespeople and marketers. In turn, the most stable professions (at least three years in one company) include doctors, nurses and teachers.
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