This Gen X CEO has only worked at one company for 35 years—she says job-hopping Gen Z are not putting enough energy and time into their current gigs

Photo of Janet Godwin (Credit: Courtesy of ACT)

• Gen Zers are avid job-hoppers, with the generation firmly believing it’s the best way to secure pay raises and promotions. But the CEO of college-readiness test company ACT thinks it could backfire. Just like General Motors’ Mary Barra, Janet Godwin has spent her entire career at a single company—and she tells Fortune young people would be better off putting more time in their current gigs for long-term success.

For many high school students, the memory of taking the ACT or SAT might feel like a fever dream: waking up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday morning, heading to a local high school, and sitting in a room full of strangers—with nothing but a No. 2 pencil and test booklet (or, more recently, a computer screen) to focus on for the next three hours.