Context engineer in manufacturing. I’ve been at my current job for 5 months. It’s not great and I’m looking to move on. However, I want to stay long enough that I can have it on my resume without awkward questions. How long do you think that should be?
I would feel weird listing anything less than a year. I feel like it takes a year to really get up to speed on a job, in engineering anyway, before you’re out of training and really say if it’s for you. (I’m not talking about actually miserable conditions like bad team, bad safety, etc.)
6months+ rounds up to a year, and my CV only states years not months. If it’s valuable to keep on my CV, I include everything that I can reasonably attach to a start and end year.
Having said that, I haven’t needed to send my CV anywhere in over 10 years. And some point the people potentially interested in hiring you don’t give a shit about the paper route you had as a kid. And a couple of points beyond that you’re embedded deep in the industry network that a CV isn’t really needed anymore.