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>>jrs235+(OP)
> "They know that employers want loyalty," Hoffman says. "They know they want to hear, 'Oh, I plan on working here for the rest of my career.'

When asked about where I wanted to be in my career by my boss (boss' boss actually), I was honest about having my resume out there and looking for other opportunities outside my current company. Now, I've heard from other sources a promotion that was possible in my future has been basically pulled.

Honesty is not a good policy. Keep lying.

Everyone says they want the truth, but if you are told you're not doing meaningful work, the justification for your job is vanity metrics, and the guy with less experience than you who does terrible work makes more money than you, how happy would you be?

If you told management, you're using the position and any promotion as a jumping off area for a newer better job at a different company, how happy would management be?

>>buckbo+94
It comes down to how you present it. If you tell a high level manager that you're shopping around for a better gig, you're basically waving a big flag that says "don't invest in me." You can have a conversation about your career direction without including the part where you've sent your resume out everywhere already.

>>gnoway+H4
>you're basically waving a big flag that says "don't invest in me."

If you're shopping around this can mean your employer has already refused to invest in you, no?

>>jotux+A6
The point is not "don't shop around," the point is "don't broadcast to management that you're shopping around."

>>gnoway+57
I understand this is the current and prevalent mindset I just think it's wrong. If you are told or find out someone is looking for another job, and that person is a good and important resource to your organization, why not take every reasonable action to try to retain them? Instead people have his knee-jerk response of, "Oh you're thinking about leaving? Well NOW I'm never going to consider promoting you because you aren't loyal."