Wade Higgins! Thanks for all your advice Andy,
just got a job offer congratulations time to resign if former company asks
what i am doing how do i politely decline from telling them i'm moving to their competitor buddy
you scored this is awesome and i don't get a lot of questions about this and i have written
articles uh about about resigning and by the way my booklet here my big my big book the hardbound
there is a chapter for all of you who have this book or for those of you who would like this book
about how to resign okay how to resign with some class and there is literally a chapter on
everything that you need to know about resigning how to do it how long to give what to say what
not to say what to write what not to write every i go through everything in here okay uh so check
check that out now wait this is awesome okay you got the offer now i'm not going to even go into
counter offering and all that other stuff because it doesn't look like you are
going to bend for that and i'm i'm glad for that if i decided i'm going to go to this competitor
i go to my organization and the thing that you need to remember about resigning
aside from the fact that you need to give them a reasonable number of weeks which is
two okay don't you believe me you ain't i know we all love to think we're so important but you don't
need to give more than two weeks uh half the time they want to walk you out before then anyway but
you go you want to give them the two weeks notice you want to make sure that you have a letter of
resignation written you do not want to email the letter of resignation before you speak to somebody
about actually resigning so you want to prepare your letter and then you want to go talk to either
your direct boss if that's who you have the best relationship with or if you don't really speak
to your boss much if it's you know it could be a situation that's kind of wacky maybe you go down
the hall you talk to hr i don't know but you're gonna go speak to somebody first when you resign
you need to say to them i want to let you know i'm informing you or i'm letting you know or however
you want to say it that i'm going i'm resigning and my last day is going to be given the two weeks
okay don't give them one week don't give them three weeks two weeks okay give them the two weeks
and say that's it and then that's it then what they're going to say is oh my goodness i didn't
know you weighed you were unhappy oh my goodness wade why didn't you come to us first because
no because i'm smart and i'm not gonna tell you anything until i know i'm gonna leave right
don't don't let your employer know you're looking don't let your employer know you're considering
the the only language you should be using is i am resigning i'm letting you know my last date is
that's it i have accepted another job throw that in there okay not i'm thinking about another job
i'm contemplating another job i'm waiting for an offer from another job no i'm signed sealed and
delivered okay that's it that's it that's all i would say then they're gonna naturally say
what was wrong is there anything we can do wade you can't go because what all the
flowers are gonna die kind of thing right they're gonna go through all that you don't
need to tell them anything okay that's the first thing second thing is a number of you
you're gonna feel obligated to tell them i'm okay with that too okay because listen if you've been
working with somebody for a bunch of years and you got a good relationship you might want to share
whatever it is that you share and i can't go through all the different scenarios
because everybody's going to be a little bit different and wayne i have no idea
why you're moving in the first place but whatever you do if you're going to share if
you're going to share not that you need to share if you're going to share you need to pick stuff
if you're going to inform them of why you're leaving that they cannot address okay that
they cannot address meaning well um you know i've always wanted to work in this area of technology
and since we don't do that here this is my great opportunity company can't do anything
i always wanted to work for an international country or company and do international travel
but we're a domestic company fine okay can't offer you that it isn't well i'm feeling underpaid
and they gave me a ten thousand dollar uh sign-on bonus and a ten thousand dollar
salary increase billy i'll give you 30 right now right it's cheaper for me to give you the money
than it is to go lose all the knowledge have to go and hire somebody and godly knows what that's
going to cost me and how long that's going to take right and and and then i got to train them up and
employers do not like to be fired they want to get rid of you on their time not your time
right so so now i can go and look for for your replacement while you're here still right so it's
got to be just got to be carefully worded if you just don't like the place which it is possible um
i don't care if you just say you know what i just need a fresh start i just do i i need to change
the scenery that's fine i don't i personally i don't think you need to give them all that but
if you if you uh if you insist on sharing that's that's the if you insist on sharing scenario
that's what i would do here again i go through it all in the book so i would definitely i would
definitely check that out wait wait that's a great great question really nice hope that helps
you