you should never, ever consider leaving for a better job a b!tch move, regardless of your employer’s situation. it’s a common feeling, especially early in your career, but you’ve just got to look out for yourself. that’s business man.
^ amen to that. your employer will be fine- you go for what’s yours KJH. as for promotion/title and leaving, that is an interesting question- I don’t know what is standard but it would make sense to leave right after a promo b/c the new title makes the ol’ resume look a whole lot better. i wonder how often that happens… your firm recognizes your hard work and you give 'em the adios soon after? stick it to the man! i’d love to have the guts to do that. I’d probably stay at least 6mo-1year unless a crazy good offer came up but ultimately I’d do what’s best for me in the long run and wouldn’t pass up anything that improved my overall career situation.
“^ amen to that. your employer will be fine- you go for what’s yours KJH. as for promotion/title and leaving, that is an interesting question- I don’t know what is standard but it would make sense to leave right after a promo b/c the new title makes the ol’ resume look a whole lot better. i wonder how often that happens… your firm recognizes your hard work and you give 'em the adios soon after? stick it to the man! i’d love to have the guts to do that. I’d probably stay at least 6mo-1year unless a crazy good offer came up but ultimately I’d do what’s best for me in the long run and wouldn’t pass up anything that improved my overall career situation.” One thing in my experience…just recently I got a good promotion (I work in industry finance and became head of Central/Latin America) BUT was already in the middle of trying to move to M&A Advisory (TS) jobs. Well, during one discussion I did get a comment about basically when I left Deloitte (I worked in Audit for 2.5 years) it was just after making senior and now I was leaving JUST after getting a promotion…I was able to answer it OK because the Deloitte thing was incorrect (I was actually senioring jobs from 1 year on) and I could give some blah, blah, about whatever…but my point is I still had it brought up. So just have a good answer in case I think. It COULD look like maybe you arent wanting responsibility. Just my experiences…
Maybe I’m bad luck because every job I’ve had the person in the next cube/office has been fired.
Another reason I need to get the fk out of here; The compliance officer here hates me for some reason. I fill out a personal dealings request to buy a new ETF out of the fund family I always buy from. This particular ETF is held in ONE account where there was ONE buy a month ago. My request was denied. This seems like a bit much.
KJH, I was in a similar situation. Our BO was being outsourced and everyone started jumping ship. I let them know 6 months ago i was looking for a change and they enticed me to stay with a raise and a promotion. Well since then about 15 people have left, including 4 really key people in the last 3 weeks. That didn’t stop me from putting in my two weeks though. Go out and find the opportunity you want and show no remorse. Work the system. If you can get a raise out of it at your current employer then awesome, that just means your next employer will pay you even more. And whoever said ops would drive you mad is correct. They offered me nearly a year’s pay in severance if I stayed on another year, turning down that money to get out of ops was the easiest decision of my life.
Are hedge funds, Ibanks outsourcing back office work to India also? How prevalent is this?
bromion Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KJH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I’m not in debt to the employer, I can just > > imagine the things they may say upon a > > reference/previous employer check after a b!tch > > move like this. > > > > I’m more worried about sour grapes is all. > > I am curious to hear people’s thoughts about a > related issue. If you get promoted, how long are > you reasonably expected to stay? I got promoted a > year ago and my firm has made it clear that they > want me to stay (in fact, I would say they > *expect* me to stay). Is it seen as a negative if > you leave a year after getting promoted? Six > months? Where is the cut off, or is there one? > Given the culture of the firm, I think in my > personal case I would burn bridges if I left a > year after being promoted. A director from my firm get promoted to FVP and within three months, he was fired. Would you say the my company has burned the bridge? Look after yourself.