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[General] Quitting a Job

Well, this blog is not to tell you to resign your current job , but the intention is to share some points that you should consider
before you quit a job that you are holding now.

People quit their job for so many reasons that HR can't accumulate.
Some people will have valid reasons and others won't.

Most of the time, this decision is taken on an emotional situation, so it is normal that people tend to do "exit things" that may fire back them one day.

Make a safe take off and landing. What’s important here is :

Don’t literally fight with current boss and resign. Even if you have troubles with him/her, don’t mention that in your resignation letter. Try to have a healthy conversation and see whether you can convey your concerns. If you boss is not ready to listen to your points, then try to convey that to HR people doing the "Exit interview".
Don’t let a small difference in salary decide you to change a job. You never know what future expense you might encounter. Making a job shift for salary reason is inevitable in today lifestyle, so do a proper calculation before you quit.
Always keep good contact with your ex-colleagues. The world is small, so you'll never know who will become boss to whom.
Don’t bash about your previous company to your new company. You never know when they will merge and fire you.
Make sure you prepare for questions that both the new and old companies asks for. Give factual reasons and keep it simple and short.
Make sure you delete your personal details on your computer before you leave the current company. Also make sure you took the backup of documents that you own.
First confirm with your boss and then let all your colleagues know.
Once you are emotionally out of the situation that made you resign, try to talk to your ex-boss and become a friend to him/her.
Even if you get less salary compared to your current previous job, make sure you really like doing that new job.
Discuss with your friends and seniors about the new job profile, they might guide you from an outsider perspective.
Do talk to the existing colleagues in the new company that you want to join. They will give you some hidden facts about the new company.

These are the tips that I have gathered from my friends and seniors, and you might see some resemblance as well.

Please feel to share your points.

TrackBacks[0] Comments[3] Posted by balajidl on 18 January 2008 12:14:12 CET

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Comment from Pie on 01 February 2008 05:21:32 CET

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Comment from Venkatesan Ravindran on 15 February 2008 07:56:30 CET

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Dear Balaji, This is Venkat - Recruitment Manager writing to you from eFORCE, www.eforceglobal.com a leading IT Services Firm. Headquartered in the US , we have superior clients, partners and employees. We constantly seek to expand our employee force with superior, dedicated and quality oriented professionals. eFORCE specializes in the Fixed Price, Fixed Time design, development, supply and maintenance of IT products and solutions in the areas of Enterprise Portals, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Infrastructure. Combining expertise in business architecture, technical architecture, design, ! deployment and ! maintenance, eFORCE delivers production-scale solutions that result in measurable ROI. eFORCE customers include global 1000, emerging and non-profit organizations such as Alcatel, AT&T , Avaya, Baker Hughes, Bank of America, British Telecom, Cisco, DHL, FedEx, Fleet Bank, French Telecom, GE Capital, GE Power, Hilton, HP , Intel, Janssen, Janus, Komen Foundation, Merck, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, Reuters, Shell, Viacom, Visa and Wells Fargo . eFORCE delivers solutions based on best-in-class enabling technologies such as ATG, BEA Systems, BroadVision, Documentum, E.piphany, HP, IBM, Interwoven, Netegrity, Plumtree, Sun Microsystems, MatrixOne, Microsoft, Octave Software, Oracle, SeeBeyond, Siebel Systems, Stellent, TIBCO, Vigmette and webMethods. eFORCE (www.eforceglobal.com) is headquartered in Silicon Vall! ey, has Development Centers in North America, Europe and India , and through its Global Delivery Methodology, provides both onshore and offshore design and development as well as full lifecycle deployment, maintenance, and support. I am contacting you to see if you might have an interest in joining the eFORCE team in our Chennai/Kolkata ODC as J2EE Senior Technical Lead/Architect. You can learn more about eFORCE at www.eforceglobal.com < http://www.eforceglobal.com> Work Location: Chennai/Kolkata. If this were of interest to you, please send me your updated profile with current & expected CTC (Indian Salary) details. Thanks & Regards, Venkat. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Venkatesan Ravindran eFORCE India Pvt. Ltd. "Meridian House" IVth Floor, Manickam Avenue ,121/3, TTK Road Alwarpet,Chennai-600 018. Phone: +91 44 4203 0977/78/88 Fax: +91 44 24994117 Innovate. Execute.TM http://www.eforceglobal.com vravindran@eforceglobal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment from vravindran@eforceglobal.com on 15 February 2008 08:20:25 CET

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