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Recruiting Myth Busters time: "90% of people who take a counter offer end up leaving their company anyway within 6 months."
Recruiters have spread that for decades.
Sometimes it's 80%. Sometimes it's 3 months. Doesn't really matter. It's all made up.
Recruiters use this stat to scare candidates out of taking counter offers. You know, because that's bad for the recruiter.
But I have to be fair: most recruiters have NO IDEA it's made up. At one point, I didn’t know it was made up. It's that pervasive. Everyone just keeps repeating it.
Go ahead, do a search on it. You'll find blogs that cite other blogs that cite other blogs. But no actual sources. Allegedly it's stemmed from a Wall Street Journal article...written in the early 1970s.
If only there was an easy way to dispel this rumor…
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