Leaving a job soon after starting it

watna

I work in recruitment and have recently moved jobs. The thing is I really don't like my new job. It's not what i expected at all. I thought it was a step up from my old job but I feel that I haven't been given any responsibility and am just an assistant for the girl I work wih. I feel I'm quite capable and lke to work autonomously but in my new role I just feel I'm being watched a lot and am being judged when I'm not actually being given the chance to prove that I am skilled.

Anyway, I've given it a month and it's making me quite miserable. The problem is, I'm moving to NZ in 6 months so it makes it harder just to leave and find a new one because I know I'm leaving Ireland in April. I've thought about giving it until Christmas and then leaving if if doesn't get any better or just going in every day for the next 6 months and putting up with it but it's actually having quite a negaive effect on me. As a recruiter, I know that it looks bad to leave a job so soon after starting but i don't think I can stay.I think I'll just have to leave earlier and maybe temp until I go away.

Does anyone else have experience of starting a new job and it just not being what you wanted or expected? Has anyone left a job so soon after starting? Did it negatively impact you later? Do you just leave it off your CV? I've never heard of anyone else wanting to leave a new job so soon after starting so I'm unsure as to what the best thing to do is. Any advice?

fret_wimp

i left my very first job within 2 weeks. it was a tough blow and hard to deal with , but the boss was an out and out bully and was wrecking my confidence. it was the best thing I ever did. thats just my particular suituation though

cilldarapunk

I left a job after 4 hours. Wasn't what I expected. Applied for a particular position and the job I was appointed held much higher responsibilities. They were basically trying to hire someone on the cheap. It was a huge multi-national consultancy.

Funny enough, the recruitment agency were p1ssed off and gave me the whole "we'll never deal with you again etc....." Three weeks later they ring me asking did I find work, (I did, the day after I left) and was wondering would I like to attend an interview, I said no thanks and I asked to be taken off their system, as I didn't want to deal with them ever again:) Then they asked me did I know anyone in the industry that might be on the look out for a new job. Again I said no.

No offence but recruitment is a cutthroat industry, but since you only have a few months to go. I would stick with it, and enjoy your trip.

AARRRGH

watna wrote: »

I've given it a month and it's making me quite miserable.

Does anyone else have experience of starting a new job and it just not being what you wanted or expected? Has anyone left a job so soon after starting? Did it negatively impact you later? Do you just leave it off your CV?

Sounds silly, but life is too short to be miserable in a job. Especially when you're leaving Ireland in a few months anyway, so the job is just a temporary thing.

Whenever I find myself in tricky situations like your one, I always imagine myself as an old man looking back on my life. Will I regret staying in this job or will I be glad I quit?

Of course you'll be glad you quit.

So my advice is to leave the job and exclude it from your CV. I'm assuming you're normally a good, honest worker, so there's no point damaging your CV with something which is just a temporary blip.

dame

dublindude wrote: »

Sounds silly, but life is too short to be miserable in a job. Especially when you're leaving Ireland in a few months anyway, so the job is just a temporary thing.

Whenever I find myself in tricky situations like your one, I always imagine myself as an old man looking back on my life. Will I regret staying in this job or will I be glad I quit?

Of course you'll be glad you quit.

So my advice is to leave the job and exclude it from your CV. I'm assuming you're normally a good, honest worker, so there's no point damaging your CV with something which is just a temporary blip.

I agree with him. It won't really matter in the grand scheme of things and there's nothing worse than just putting in the hours for the sake of it in a job you hate. Just leave and work somewhere else for a few months, even a shop if you can't get work for such a short period in what you're trained for. Take it easy and enjoy life. Treat it as a break until you go to New Zealand. That's what I'd do.


By the way, National Geographic might not like you using their image in your sig/avatar thingy. I recognise that close-up of a meerkat as a scan of a greeting card of theirs. Maybe you should pay them royalties!

Poco Loco

I agree - quit if you're not happy. I'm a recruiter as well (as part of a HR department now, thankfully) and I know how horrible and soul destroying it can be working in a recruitment agency. I stayed too long and I regret it - you should go. You could leave it off your CV completely if all goes to all?

Seeing as you are only there a month, they will probably let you go immediately when you hand in your notice. They often do this if someone is new and inexperienced. Also, in recruitment agencies if you tell them you are leaving to go to a competitor, they will usually ask you to leave immediately (I have seen people not being allowed to go back to their desk to get their coat after resigning!) for fear you will rob clients and/or candidates when you go.

So if you do it today you could get a long weeked! AND they would have to pay you your notice period - happy days!