Delivering Your Resignation Letter

As you are getting ready to actually deliver your resignation letter and officially resign, you might feel that your current employer will beg you to stay, will try to guilt you into staying or will make it difficult for you to leave the company which could lead you to question your decision to accept a new job.

Personally I've had a few occasions where I was walking into my boss's office to resign and kind of dreaded actually having to do it.

Mostly it was because I got along with my manager really well and kind of felt like I was letting them down by quitting!

This could be very difficult for you especially if you are the type of person who doesn’t like confrontation.

You might wonder if your new job is really as good as you think it will be.

You might start questioning your reasons for looking for a new job.

On top of that your current employer could make you a counter offer to make it difficult for you to leave.

The best advice I can give is to trust your gut.

You obviously decided to look for a new job for a reason and decided that this new opportunity is better than the one you have currently.

It is certainly natural for you to feel trepidation when switching jobs but at this point, you have already committed to your new employer and you’re going to disappoint someone either way no matter what you do.

If you resign from your current employer you are probably going to disappoint them and they might actually try to keep you by making a counter offer.

If you change your mind and decide to stay with your current employer, you disappoint (and probably anger) the company whose offer you accepted and are now turning down.

Either way, you’re going to disappoint someone.

You’ve made a commitment to your new company so now is not the time to be a waffler.

And it’s certainly not the time to entertain the thoughts of accepting a counter offer.