[TWAndrews]

Yeah. My baseline assumption is that people need 1-3 years after graduation before just getting their heads screwed on straight--there are definitely exceptions to this, but not as often as the average 24 year-old would have you believe.

Spending less than a year in the first job would be a red-flag for me, and it would take the candidate offering some very persuasive reasons for having left for me to give the serious consideration.

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

To be fair, it does happen. I interviewed a kid once for what would have been his third job, and he had a six month stint on his resume for his first job, so I asked and turned out the company went bust, so that's totally fair.

But "I wanted to do something cooler" isn't going to cut it, because how do I know they won't find something cooler six more months down the road.

[tostitos1979]

One friend suggested putting a reason for leaving on anything shorter than 1 year. That way, you can actually say that the company went bust :D