Q: The average Canadian will do this around 15 times in their lifetime. What is it?
A: Change jobs.
Generation X spends over 20 percent longer in each job they hold than Gen Y does. People who graduated university in 1992, Gen Xers, worked an average of 3.2 jobs in the first 12 years of their career, staying approximately 41 months or 3.4 years in each job.
Just ten years later, the cohort graduating in 2002, Generation Y, held 3.9 jobs over their first 12 years on the job market, with a shorter tenure of 32.5 months or 2.7 years in each job on average. Gen Y changed jobs 22 per cent more often over a 12 year period than Gen X did.
According to Statistics Canada, two-thirds of Canadian Baby Boomers entered their fifties in long-time employment – holding down jobs they had been in for at least 12 years with the same employer. In fact, more than half had worked for the same firm or organization for far longer — often 20 years or more.
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