Do you Have An Exit Strategy?
Tuesday, November 27 | Posted in Career development , Coaching , Uncategorised | 
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“I quit!” Admit it: Those two simple words are on your mind and maybe even the tip of your tongue at least some of the time. And apparently you’re not alone. According to a recent poll conducted by CareerPath.com, 40% of the 1,400 workers surveyed said that they planned to change jobs within a year. In these days of megamergers and startup mania, we’d be less than honest if we said that we rarely think about taking off.
Trouble is, although we spend a lot of time planning our next move, we rarely think about an exit strategy for the job that we’ll be leaving. Yet the way we leave speaks volumes about the way we value our work, our colleagues, and our reputations.
“Your last impression is almost as important as your first,” says Mark Oldman, 31, cofounder of Vault.com Inc, an online career-information site. “It’s important to leave behind an impeccable record, because it’s a small world and you never know whether you’ll work with - or for - some of the same people again.”