Resignations & Counter-Offers

• Made the decision to leave your present company?
• Successfully found a new opportunity?
• Find yourself tendering your notice?
• The subject of Counter-Offers loom?

Assured Recruitment Consultants can help you to successfully leave your present company with no hard feelings.

Resignations

When handing in your notice you should remember that it should be done formally. Before stating your intent informally you must prepare and present your formal letter of resignation. The letter does not have to give the reasons as to why you are leaving but you must include the date in which your termination of employment is given and the date that you are contracted to work until which should be your agreed notice period. You should also wish your employer well for the future at the end of your letter.

If you consider retracting your letter of resignation then bear in mind:
• Will your company ever consider you as a loyal employee?
• Do you have faith in the promises that have been made?
• Has you resignation affected the likelihood of future promotions.
• Why has it taken your resignation for you to get what you feel you deserve?
• What do your work colleagues think of you now?

Counter-Offers

A counter-offer is when a current employer offers you an incentive to stay and rival an offer that you have received from another employee.

Receiving a counter-offer has become far more common and this becomes your employers last chance to keep you. There are a number of ways in which Counter-Offers can be presented:
• They can offer to increase your current salary or package.
• They can match or surpass your new offer.
• They can offer you the chance of promotion or new project work or both.
• Your company could offer the opportunity and package that you have been looking for.

Counter-Offers can place doubts in you’re decided mind and can produce feelings of guilt and pressure. Make sure that the decision you make is the best for you and your career. You make your develop your own career in the same way that businesses make decisions in order to improve the develop the company.

There are many reasons that counter-offers could arise:
• They haven’t got the time to prepare for increased workload if you left.
• Recruiting a direct replacement can often be expensive.
• They may want you to transfer your knowledge.
• You have excellent knowledge that they want to protect.
• There isn’t a budget for recruitment.
• Your departure may reflect negatively on the company.
• Training someone else will take too long, especially if no one else can do your job effectively.

Most people that accept counter-offers will leave their position within six months. It is best to contact us as soon as possible in order to discuss any offers with your Recruitment Consultant. Our Recruitment Consultants are on hand to help you make a clear and informed decision.

Not receiving a counter-offer is not a negative reflection on you, many companies feel that they will still lose the employee in the long term.