Daughter leaving job

shariatlanta

After being very unhappy at work for the past two months my daughter has decided to hand her notice in tomorrow, this is after walking out lunchtime on Tuesday, I have being trying to persuade her to stay with it as it's her first job since leaving college, she's 21, but now it's making her seriously depressed, she has also been sending off loads of job applications but gets very despondant when nothing comes back. Now to the question, having never formally handed in my notice I'm a bit unsure as to what she should put in her resignation letter so any tips please.

Oh and if anyone has a vacancy for a bright 21yr old with qualifications in IT we would both be very grateful, I need the rent money.:D

imoneyop

The main thing to do is make sure that she is giving the required period of notice (probable a month or 4 weeks). Something like this should do -

As required by my contract of employment, I hereby give you <NOTICE PERIOD> notice of my intention to leave my position as <JOB TITLE>

Then just add a nice closing paragraph.

gingercordial

I did this fairly recently, for the first time. I just put:

"(Date)

Dear (name of boss)

Please accept this letter as formal notice of my resignation from (company name).

Yours sincerely,

(my name)"

My boss took it, read it, and made a comment that people USUALLY put something nice about how they regret it or have enjoyed their time there! Well I'd said that to her already before I gave her the letter so I saw no real reason why the bit of paper to go on my HR file should say it too!

kent_lady

I always used to write

Dear .....

Please accept this letter as 4 weeks' [or whatever contract says] notice of my resignation from [company name].

I have enjoyed my time with ..... but now feel that the time has come to explore other opportunities.

yours etc

As imoney op says, main thing is to give the notice as required by her contract. She also needs to check what happens about o/s holiday - does she take it or get paid for it?

candygirl

Try not to worry. I was in exactly the same situatiuon with my 20 year old daughter 4 weeks ago.She left her job after being unhappy for a while, she did serve 2 weeks notice though.I stressed how important it was to do this for references etc.
Since then she has signed on at an office agency and even though her pervious experience was in retail, she got work at a university in the office, and also at a bank on the desk.
She has now got the job she wanted at an estate agents, and is starting tomorrow.
Try not to worry, they are old enough to sort themsleves out, even though we don't think they are

Feanor

Hello,

I recently gave in my notice and i used a template from the website 'I resign' dot com. if you google it, you'll find it.

It was great, just download the templates and put in your details where required and hey presto! They are really good too, sound very professional.

I know what it feels like to be in a job that you hate, its soul destroying just going there every day. She sounds well qualified so im sure something will come up. try not to get at her too much

Feanor x

scotgirl

I also used the template from iresign.com - very useful.

Temping is great for someone who is a bit unsure of the path they want to take, it gives an opportunity to try a few things. From my experience if she has a bit off work experience on her CV she will have no problem getting a temp job and this will stop her from feeling despondant while looking for a permanent position. Also, many temp jobs go permanent after a while.

I am sure she will find something much better than she was in previously. Good luck to her.

shariatlanta

Just a quick message to say thanks for the advice, now to find another job.

[Deleted User]

Where abouts are you? I work for an IT firm in London (500 staff in UK, 7000 worldwide) and we're currently expanding?