  A significant proportion of voluntary employee turnover includes people who
frequently move from job to job, known as job-hopping. Our work shows that
language used in responding to interview questions on past behaviour and
situational judgement is predictive of job-hopping motive as measured by the
Job-Hopping Motives (JHM) Scale. The study is based on responses from over
45,000 job applicants who completed an online chat interview and self-rated
themselves on JHM Scale. Five different methods of text representation were
evaluated, namely four open-vocabulary approaches (TF-IDF, LDA, Glove word
embeddings and Doc2Vec document embeddings) and one closed-vocabulary approach
(LIWC). The Glove embeddings provided the best results with a correlation of r
= 0.35 between sequences of words used and the JHM Scale. Further analysis also
showed a correlation of r = 0.25 between language-based job-hopping motive and
the personality trait Openness to experience and a correlation of r = -0.09
with the trait Agreeableness.
