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More people will hand in their notice this week than during any other week

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Today we released figures to the National press showing that more employees will hand in their notice this week than during any other week in the year.

The full press release is below.  We’d love to hear your thoughts on this, or if you’re going through a similar situation yourself.

Press Release

Figures from Cloud Recruitment Company ‘Resource on Demand’ were released today and show that more employees will hand in their notice this week than during any other week of the year, with a staggering 37% of the years total transpiring this week alone.

Year on Year statistics gathered by Resource on Demand show that 37% of resignations occur in the third week of September and 24% happen during the first week of February. Both of these bouts occur 4-weeks after the end of traditional holiday seasons.

This research also shows that whilst many career changes are triggered following these key holiday periods, it takes candidates on average 4 weeks to job hunt and attend interviews, then a further 4 weeks to work their notice – meaning that the majority of post-summer resignations only start their new roles at the beginning of November.

Lee Durrant, MD of Resource on Demand, said:

“This week will see hundreds of thousands of people handing in their notice across the UK & Ireland. The catalyst is often the Summer break, people return from their time away looking to progress or alter their career path. After mulling it over on a beach, job hunting, applying, interviewing and working their notice, many candidates will naturally opt to this week hand in their notice and so a ‘merry-go-round’ of the jobs market will begin”.

A recent (July 2010) study by the Institute of Leadership and Management has revealed that 40% of workers do not in actua fact return from their holidays feeling more relaxed.

Lee Durrant added:

“It is incredible that over half of all new jobs are triggered by the two key holiday seasons, but in many ways it is also unsurprising. The time away from our desks helps us to consider our options and evaluate our careers. Our advice is that if you are not enjoying your job, maybe it is time to look for a role that you will enjoy. This may include training to reach that goal, but it is worth the time that you invest into it.”

Resource On Demand (ROD) is a market leader in providing recruitment services on a subscription basis to the salesforce.com and Cloud Computing industry. Assisting companies looking to recruit talented people with salesforce.com experience and certification on permanent, contract or temporary assignments.


How to quit a job

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The internet has been lit up this week with a clever campaign that went viral, featuring a ‘girl next door’ who dramatically and stylishly quits her job by taking 33 photos of herself with a hand held white board, each picture with a different message on the white board.  She then emailed this message to everyone in her office so that they all saw it at the same time on a Monday morning.

It was a very unique (funny/stylish/original) way to quit and one which caught the imagination of people everywhere, until The Chive revealed it was a hoax and purely done for fun.

You can read the original email and see the photos in full on The Chive website.

This hoax was so popular in fact that 238,000 people shared it on Facebook and 31,000 tweeted it.  It did however trigger talk around water coolers and on blogs, of ways that people would quit and if employees are actually happy in their jobs.

At ROD the conversation that we had revolved around ‘If people do quit, why is it important that they stick to their guns and don’t then accept a counter offer?’  We feel strongly that accepting a counter offer from your current employer when you hand in your resignation can be one of the biggest mistakes you’ll make in your career.

So if you are thinking of handing in your notice and beginning in a new role, here’s our list of seven reasons why you should not accept a counter offer after handing in your notice.

1) If you have been offered a new title and lovely promotion / pay rise – why do you think it took a resignation to surface it? Is this promotion or pay rise based on merit?  Or is it purely because you put a gun to their head and they panicked?

2) Your Manager will have to replace you if you leave and this is very time consuming and costly for them. Would you agree that it is easier for them to offer you more money and / or a new title than it is to replace you?

3) If you were to accept the counter offer, how do you think your boss will view your loyalty?  They may well say it’s forgotten about but we guarantee that every future sick day or dentist visit will be viewed with suspicion.

4) How much respect do you think they will have for you if you stay?  They will feel that they have pulled the wool over your eyes and that they are in control of your career and not you.

5) The majority of people resign for reasons other than money, although when extra money is dangled in front of them they feel compelled to stay. In most cases the real reason for wanting to leave will re-appear in the very near future when the novelty of a little extra money has worn off.

6) Why should a company keep someone who didn’t really deserve a promotion and instead received it in reaction to a fear of departure? When the market dips, as it inevitably does, you will be at the top of the list of people asked to go.

7) Think about the other company (or companies) that have offered you other opportunities. What will they think of someone who used them to get a pay rise at their current company? Individual industries can be very incestuous and you don’t want to be thought of as someone who plays companies off against each other.

If your main motivator for looking around is more money then before you go out on interviews and start receiving offers – walk into your bosses office right now and ask him for a pay rise. If he says no then you know that any offer at resignation stage is an act of desperation, but if he says yes then you have just saved yourself alot of time and effort!

So we hope this helps, but we wouldn’t recommend quitting using photos and a white-board to hand in your notice.  A simple polite conversation and written notice will suffice.