My guess the reason why you're watching this video is you are thinking about leaving your current
position. You don't have a new position to go to yet. You're wondering if this is a good idea.
Maybe you're looking for some feedback or some advice. Maybe you're even looking for somebody's
permission to do this. My name is Bill Benoist. I am a Certified Professional Career Coach here
in Silicon Valley. I've been working as a career coach for about 10 years now. Prior to that, I was
a hiring manager for about 20 years. And I want to give you my perspective from both angles that as a
career coach, and also as a hiring manager who has interviewed individual who had left their position
without having a new one to go to yet and give you my feedback on that. So, I believe there's
five core reasons why an individual will leave their current position without going to a new one.
I think there's only five of 'em. Well, there could be there very well can be more than five and
leave something in, in the note section below. If you have a reason that's a little bit more unique,
but I think the five reasons why a person will consider this. And
number one, the first reason, probably one of the most popular. One of 'em that
probably is the reason why you're watching this video is you are working in a toxic environment
and it's really taking a hit to your mental health, and it's probably even affecting your
physical health. And if this is the case, I mean, the first thing I want to ask you is has this been
going on for some time now, or is it just recent? Because if it's just recent, give yourself
a little bit of time, let it let a lot of times things get better over the couple of weeks.
But if this has been something that has been playing on you for months now, then it might be
time to go. Especially if this is affecting your mental health, not only at work, but also at home
in your personal life, your family life, because you know what it else is probably affecting. And
that is your ability to interview will. So, this is, uh, something that you may want to consider
and also, you know, the, these kind of things they do affect your physical health as well. So,
I don't want to put your physical health in any kind of danger. I mean, especially if it's
in reason your blood pressure giving you high blood pressure out there, uh, giving you racing
hearts. I mean, it's just, you know, it's, it's not worth it. So, so keep that in mind.
Number two, the second reason, and this is also a very common reason out there.
A lot of people do this in that is looking for a new job, does take a lot of focus. And a lot
of time there is situations where you may need to be interviewing in person at odd hours. And you,
you know, of the day, and maybe you're just a little bit worried about continuing to ask your
manager that you report to, if you can have this day off or that day off or come in late,
come in early. And they're probably gonna notice it anyway. So is playing into your schedule there
because it does take a good amount of time to look for that next position. Now, the third
reason is if you believe that you are about to be terminated, it might be a good time to walk away
from this position, because this way you are being able to talk to the next hiring manager
on your own terms as to why you left that position.
And I've got some great answers to what happened at your last job, or why is it that you left your
last job in the training session? I'll leave it in the upper right-hand corner, but I have
a free it's almost an hour and a half training session that answers various interview questions.
Like tell me about yourself. Uh, what happened at your last job? What are your salary expect
patients? What do you think your biggest weakness is? Where do you see yourself in five years? And
of course the behavioral type of question. So that is one of the questions that I do address
is what happened at your last job. And that is also something that can play into all of these,
uh, reasons as far as walking away from your current job without having a new one to go to. So
again, just to review of the first three, one is playing havoc on your mental and physical health.
Number two, that you need the time to really focus on looking for that next job. Number three,
if you think that you, uh, termination is imminent. The fourth reason is also a fairly
reason. I saw this firsthand with many different individuals and that is they decided to do a
significant career change where it required them to go back to school or learn a new trade. You
know, a couple of years ago I had a client that was a technical bootcamp school. I would go in,
I would once a month, I would do a career ready to workshop. And the individuals that were going
through this program, it was a four-month program, but they always started every single month. So,
every month they had a graduating class. These individuals were really doing a very intense
program where they were, they were pretty much studying 60 hours a week for four months solid.
Now they did, they did have some online classes available that was a little bit easier to deal
with, but these individuals really needed to focus their attention on that. So, a lot of 'em had
walked away from previous careers. And I wanna go back to just a second, if it was affecting
your mental health or your physical health, I, a couple individuals in there that were
former police officers. They just wanted to do something a little bit more safe and even
a couple of firefighters at times, because it was really played havoc to their physical body.
So, if it is something that you're considering doing a significant career change, and you need
that time to really brush up on your skills and study, you know, by all means that's a valid
reason. And then finally, and this is a reason that I did. I walked away from my position.
I didn't have a new position, but I was still already my own business.
Now I did start my business. Part-time in 2012, I was seeing clients at night on the weekends as
I was doing my vice presidency duties during the day. But after a while, it got to a point where
it was time to walk away from that position and really go get, try it on my own. And so,
in 2015, in fact, it was August 1st on 2015. That was the first day that I went full time with this
position. And to be honest with you, I've never looked back. I've never been more happy. So,
there you go. Those are the five re core reasons. I think what people will leave their jobs, but I'm
not giving you my permission yet, because there's something that you really need to do for me.
Before you take this step, have you really started researching the industry that you want to move to?
Is it an industry where there is a lot of demand out there? Do you think it's gonna
be an easy transition once you have full-time access to start looking for that new position,
because it is gonna add some more stress to you. So, one of the things that you can do, if you
haven't already done this is start talking to some recruiters out there, contact a couple of staffing
agencies. They're be happy to talk with you, you know, ask 'em what the market is out there. They
may even ask you for your resume. And that's also something else. I mean, get these things ready,
make sure that you resume is up to date. Make sure that your LinkedIn profile is up to date
before you ever go out and start this search. I mean, before you walk away from the job,
because these are things that you can do right now before you walk away from that position.
And again, if you need help with a resume or your LinkedIn profile, gonna go back to it, that
free training that I have, it's on my website. I'll link it in the, uh, notes section below
again, I'll have it in the upper right-hand corner as well here. So, number one, make sure that you
have done your research out there and that you're ready to go start activating your network. Now
you can do this quietly on this side but start becoming a little bit more active with LinkedIn.
Start checking with individuals out there, letting the one know that you that are not gonna get back
to your current employer, that you are beginning to start looking. You can start doing this on
a quiet basis. You can even, um, open up your LinkedIn profile to recruiters without any anybody
even knowing about that. There’re also some tricks about if you're looking at specific
companies out there to let the recruiters know about your interest and to come look at your
profile. And again, I have that in the training as well. So that's something that you may want to do,
And finally make sure that you time your exit accordingly. Is there a bonus coming up or some
stock options coming up in the next month or two, then try to wait that out because I'll give you a
little bit more income before you actually exit stage left. So, I'd hope you found this video
inform and useful if you haven't already done. So, make sure that you subscribe to my channel,
hit that bill of notification. As I do upload new career tips and strategies every Tuesday.
Why wish you the best of luck in this? I know it's a big decision, but I know you can do it.
Thanks a lot. And I'll talk to you soon.