Most of them have employment gaps in their resume and this may hurt their chances of getting hired. Also if one has a stable employment with a company and they did not show any progress during their employment, then this will also not make an impressive mark on the potential employer who is viewing the resume. When an employee sticks with a company for many years, it can be taken in two ways: one is that the company is very good and you are lucky enough to be associated with the company. Second thing is that you don’t like to take up new challenges and you don’t like to step out of the comfort zone. Some employers take it positively and some employers take it negatively because of following reasons:
• They doubt about your ambitions and motivations: If an employee has been working with the same company for years and their resume shows the title same as when they started, then the employer will think that you have not reached to the peak of your career. Employers always look for people who are ambitious and motivated to progress.
• They may doubt on your marketable skills: In your long term employment with a company, your skills may grow stale and the employer may think that you know only one way of doing things. Employers want to know many things while interviewing like how effective and competitive you are in doing things differently, how well you can adapt to a new environment etc. these are the points where your long term employment with your employer will impress the potential employer.
• They will look for advancement: Potential employers also look for the advancements. If you got promotion or got transferred to work in other departments, list them in your resume, so that the employer feels that you made advancements in your career.
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