“The moment you tell people you’re leaving, you’re perceived as an outsider,” he says. On the other hand, giving too much notice - more than three months, say - is not necessarily wise, says Gulati. The higher up you are in an organization the longer it will take to extricate yourself and possibly train the next person coming in so you may need to give closer to a month if possible. And while two weeks is customary, you might consider “offering to work even longer if you haven’t already committed to a start date at another organization,” he says. To leave an organization with anything less than two weeks’ notice is simply “bad form,” says Schlesinger. Quitting your job for any reason - whether it’s because you’re deeply unhappy or you’re embarking on a new opportunity - “requires sensitivity and planning,” says Schlesinger. Remember: “You set the tone.” According to Len Schlesinger, a professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Just Start: “The bookends - how you start and how you end - are the most important parts of any professional relationship.” The trouble is that people tend to spend a lot of time preparing for and strategizing about their first impressions, and rarely give much thought to their last ones. “Colleagues may be trying to read you and understand why you’re leaving,” he says. “It’s all part and parcel of company life.” And yet, there will inevitably be some curiosity about your departure. ![]() “People are more accustomed to the comings and goings of colleagues than in the past,” says Daniel Gulati, the coauthor of Passion & Purpose. The average worker today stays at a job for 4.6 years, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But what is the right approach? Who should you tell first? How much notice should you give? And how honest should you be about your reasons for leaving?Ĭhances are that you’ll get a lot of practice quitting jobs over the course of your career. Who hasn’t fantasized about walking into the boss’s office, saying: “I quit!” and then marching straight out the door? The rational side of you knows, of course, that that’s the wrong way to resign from a job.
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