Is Resigning a Job Bad? | JobSearchTV.com
Someone asked whether resigning a job is bad and didn’t explain their circumstances. In this short video, I cover a few conditions. I also mentioned another video, “When Is It OK To Quit Without Giving Notice?”
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Is resigning a job bad? I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, a career and leadership coach, a former recruiter. And the short answer to the question is no.
You’re not a slave. If you don’t like your job, you are allowed to resign and go elsewhere. And there are specific situations where you can quit without giving notice. And I’ll have a link to that in the show notes.
But if you’re resigning, you want to do it courteously and without a lot of accusations about bad treatment or what have you. “I’m underpaid. I never get the good work.” There’s no point in that you’re going somewhere else; they already know.
So the idea very simply, is if you’re going to resign, give notice. Usually that’s two weeks; under some circumstances, it’s three. I know in Europe, it’s three months. But I’ll just say, giving notice, resigning a position, is not intrinsically bad. You’re going to something else.
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Now, if you’re not going to something else it’s going to cost you in certain ways, because resigning without having another position puts you in an awkward position with a next employer who wonders if you’ll do that to them.
“Why did you quit? Why did you resign?”
” I couldn’t put up with it anymore.”
That’s an immature answer. You have to have polished answers that explain why you left and again, I’ll have a link to another video that I have that talks about specific circumstances where it’s okay to resign without giving notice.
But most of the time, give notice. During the notice period, do a great job and walk out the door with your head high and go to the next firm.
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