When should you resign from a job?

Certainly, when you get a new job and are currently employed by someone else, you need to figure out when to deliver the news to your boss that you have a new job and are resigning.

Ive found that some people want to run out and resign right away as soon as they have a job offer even before they have actually received an offer in writing!

Before you resign from your current employer, take some time to ensure that everything is in place with your new employer.

Here are some tips regarding figuring out the timing of your resignation.

1. Dont think about resigning until you have actually received a job offer in writing. A job offer is not a job offer until you have an offer in writing. I would not think about resigning from my current employer until I had not only received the offer in my hand, but until Id also returned my signed copy to them and had my new employer confirm theyd received it. I always return the signed copy of the job offer to my new employer before thinking about resigning from my current employer. Ensure that the job offer contains everything you expected and then return the signed copy to your new employer before resigning from your current job.

2. Pay attention to the terms of your current employer. If you are required to give a certain amount of notice 2 or 3 weeks notice is fairly standard you want to ensure you provide them with the necessary notice. Quitting on the spot or only giving one week notice when you are required to give 3 weeks is the best way to burn your bridges with your current employer. Even though you are leaving them, you want to leave your employer on good terms in case you ever have the opportunity to return to them or in the case you need something from them ie. a reference.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it?s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it?s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it?s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

I?m also a Platinum Ezine Articles Expert as recognized by EzineArticles.com, one of the most visited websites on the Internet. This special designation is earned by having consistently high-quality articles published and viewed on their website. All of my submissions are related to helping you find your dream career and many of my articles get reproduced on other websites by their webmasters.

Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!