[marcofucci]

"If you’ve had five jobs in the last five years, why should the recruiter think this time will be different?"

Maybe because who is hiring is supposed to be better than the others? There are far too many terrible companies, especially the big ones, and honestly I would never stay in a company just for the sake of it.

If recruiters think that this is a problem, it means that who is hiring is not confident enough or worse, the company IS really terrible like the others.

IMHO, nobody leaves a company if he feels good, stimulated and paid enough.

[smm2000]

If it's only one short term job, it's totally ok. Two is ok but I will ask why. Three+ is a negative. 5+ short term jobs is pretty much no hire unless there is a very good explanation. There are no perfect companies and people have to compromise.

[marcofucci]

Well, I totally agree with you that there are no perfect companies but for the rest, I believe you don't have very good arguments.

I do understand that recruiters have to place people and they don't really mind/understand if the company is good or not but I can't see why this should be our problem.