#74: What Trump teaches us about job hunting

A wafer-thin attempt to be topical.

Nov 06, 2024

They say (who ever “they” are) to avoid leaving your employer on acrimonious terms. It can’t always be avoided—settlement agreements are rarely a positive experience, tribunals and constructive dismissals neither.

BUT (and it’s a big but) if you can leave on good terms—and you are good at what you do, and you don’t detest everything about your boss, team, or organisation’s culture—it’s a good idea.

Why?

Well you never know when one of the following might happen:

You get the call asking you to come back into a new role.
You get the call from a colleague who has also moved on, with an interesting job opportunity at their new place.

Trump’s call back to office (I’m somehow flabbergasted and not at all surprised all in one thought) might be a tenuous link to this topic, but he must have done something half decent the first time, despite the way he went about his business both while in the job and afterwards.

There’s something about leaving the door open for both parties.

I know plenty of people who have left one company (perhaps because they weren’t being stretched or being given opportunities to grow) and picked themselves up a nice new shiny role that gave them everything they wanted, or even more.

And when that role came to it’s natural end, they somehow found themselves re-employed back at the original firm, with a bigger or more rewarding job—plus the benefit of having seen life on the outside.

Or, their boss or a colleague moved on to pastures new, and with a growing team and a promotion, happened to have interesting roles available. Hmm.

I suppose the TL;DR here is don’t burn your bridges as you never know when you’ll need to cross choppy waters.

That’s it for this week,

A Sterne Talking To

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