How to Use job-hopping in a Sentence

job-hopping

noun

• At the same time, wages were rising at a fast pace, so many individuals engaged in job-hopping.
  — Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
• Workers have long been taught that job-hopping is the fastest way to rise through the ranks and secure big pay raises—but the career strategy has lost its edge.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
• The hiring boom has created a war for talent, driving up salaries and increasing job-hopping by household staff.
  — Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 July 2026
• And despite how much employers might hate job-hopping, most professionals have been embracing it as a useful career tool.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
• However, wage gains have become so marginal, and job openings have become so scant, that the popularity of job-hopping could lose traction.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
• Another reason is recruiters in the past discouraged workers from job-hopping because it was looked upon as unstable and irresponsible.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• This is giving rise to the trend of job-hugging, which is the opposite of job-hopping that occurred during the Great Resignation of 2022.
  — Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Instead of job-hopping from business to business in search of bigger pay bumps and position titles, McMillon stayed loyal to the company for his entire 40-year career.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
• The executives who preached job-hopping and the career coaches who built careers around hacking your way to more money were describing a market that genuinely rewarded those behaviors at a specific moment in time.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
• Understanding the Job Hugging Trend Job hugging represents a significant behavioral shift from job-hopping.
  — Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Yet Kennedy’s trajectory suggests that even in a corporate landscape defined by job-hopping, the conventional route of building range and credibility at a single employer remains a viable one for younger workers.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
• As someone who worked his way up from unloading trucks in the warehouse to eventually landing in the C-suite, McMillon embodies how staying dedicated to one employer can work wonders for aspiring leaders—in contrast to job-hopping in search of potential pay gains.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
• In 2023, the wage gain for job-hopping stood at around 9%, lowering to about 8% in 2024, and roughly 6% in 2025, according to the Bank of America report.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026