3 Month Notice - Quitting before next role

[944fan]

Following from this thread:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I've been applying for some local jobs. I'm currently on a 3 month notice period. Speaking with the agents a lot of said there clients will be put off by this.

There are quite a few jobs out there but no guarantee I will get one, or indeed the right one in that time. I don't want to be in the situation where I resign and two months later am having to take something less than suitable just because I need a job.

Would you quit before you had something else? I have two kids and am the main breadwinner so not really in a position to risk it. We don't have a massive amount of savings to fall back on either.

I may be able to negotiate my period down when I resign but no guarantee that I can at all so can't promise anything.

[944fan]

I get the feeling behind all the smiles and fakeness my boss is quite vindictive so walking out during the notice period is likely to cause a st storm.

Think I either need to take the risk and resign now or just try and negotiate.

[944fan]

Yeah garden leave wouldn't help other than getting me away from the madness.

I spoke to a recruiter about it this morning and they said that with my CV and experience it wont take me long to find something else.

My only concern is we are heading towards Christmas where in the past I have found recruitment slows a bit.

[944fan]

Yeah that's a really good point. I don't think he was giving any guarantee just commenting that there a plenty of jobs around and my cv is strong.

I have 14 years .Net development experience and 5 years team lead and there aren't many of me around.

That was my biggest worry is I get nervous 2 months in and lose my bargaining chips and accept something less.

[944fan]

I have spoken to a few agents today. Most have said, 3 months isn't ideal but it is what it is and if a company likes me they will wait.

My phone has been ringing off the hook today from agents so I think my skill set and experience are in high demand.

[944fan]

jjones said:

944fan said:

Yeah that's a really good point. I don't think he was giving any guarantee just commenting that there a plenty of jobs around and my cv is strong.

I have 14 years .Net development experience and 5 years team lead and there aren't many of me around.

That was my biggest worry is I get nervous 2 months in and lose my bargaining chips and accept something less.

.NET (c# in particular) is crazy at the minute (I am midlands based and the market since christmas has been crazy). Put your CV on a few of the online job sites if you don't have 20 voicemails by the end of tomorrow (with potential jobs that are relevant to you and not just usual new cv spam) i would be shocked.

Yep pretty much what I have found. Waiting to hear back on 6 jobs currently that recruiters have put me forward for. I have turned down about that many as well as they didn't sound right.

[944fan]

andy-xr said:

Breadvan72 said:

Take care about following robustly expressed amateur advice such as the above. In the light of a recent Court of Appeal authority (Sunrise Brokers v Rodgers [2014] EWCA Civ 1373), if an employee walks out without giving the contractual notice, the employer may be able to obtain an injunction that forbids the employee from working anywhere else. In some circumstances, the employer won't even have to pay the employee for the period of notice if the employee refuses to work.

Some employers might not bother to enforce the notice period, but others might seek to do so. Those who say "employers never do this" must inhabit a planet different from the one where I live, on which planet employers frequently take action to enforce notice periods and other obligations against departing employees, and frequently succeed in doing so.

A derivatives broker who set up a trading division case vs a techie dev probably on £30kpa?

Come on...Would it be reasonable for yer average Joe on an average £26k/pa salary to work 3 months when everyone else in the same industry asks for a month.....No.
Would it be reasonable for a higher earning broker who could bring the company down to have to give 12 months notice? According to the courts....yes

Balance, int'it

Not to start any willy waving but I'm a technical manager on more than twice 30Kpa. I was brought in to "sort" the dev team which had royally fked up. I've been touted to the clients as the savior of IT here. Its all bks of course but I'm not seen a just another dev.

I have no intention of walking out and not serving my notice period, that was never under consideration. My company may do something legal they may not. But they wont let me skip off into the sunset.

On the plus side I have an interview with a major competitor. When people have left in the past and gone to competitors they have been released early.