3 months notice - too much?

boredatwork82

New job, contract has 3 montsh notice period.
Its a professional management role. Is this norm or is it too much?
I thought I posted this but can't see it.
So hope it didn't duplicate somewhere.

Nody

boredatwork82 wrote: »

New job, contract has 3 montsh notice period.
Its a professional management role. Is this norm or is it too much?
I thought I posted this but can't see it.
So hope it didn't duplicate somewhere.

Nothing's listed in the last 10 posts but you may have posted it in a pre approval forum (posts only appear once a mod approves them).

As for 3 months; it depends exactly on the seniority. If you're team leader/Supervisor leading people directly it may be on the long side, on the other side if you're the director or leading a NOC of highly specialised technical people/have a very high requirement on technical knowledge in the position it may be perfectly fine. So the answer with out a bit more detail is maybe.

boredatwork82

Finance manager for a production site.

Nody

boredatwork82 wrote: »

Finance manager for a production site.

I'd expect two to three months; once again due to definition of manager differs between companies including the duties of the role I don't want to try to narrow it down that much further (this also excludes that there appear to have been a general shift to longer the a months notice in the last couple of years, at least in my experience).

Also what's good to keep in mind you can always try to negotiate out a earlier leave if needed with them when you're leaving but it is unlikely they'll change it as they hire you. The reason being that this is most likely a company policy on notice period based on seniority and hence the local HR most likely have none or very limited room to change it.

Irish_Elect_Eng

3 Months is not that unusual for more senior positions. In these roles a company carries greater risks of an impact to the business when a senior person leaves. In general I would look on this as a good thing as the role has enough substance/value to it to make it worth increasing the notice period.

I have seen this type of notice period waived in the past. The best strategy to avoid having to serve the whole notice period is to develop one of your direct reports as a successor,so that if you want to move on in future, promoting the successor that you have selected into the role, is a no-brainer and they can resume normal business immediately. Of course this is best practice anyway.

(If you get lucky they may even ask you to finish up early :-) )

Good Luck.

tatli_lokma

new job and you are concerned with the notice period?? my advice, get in the job first and worry about such things when the time comes to consider moving on. Don't under any circumstances raise the issue now, as it would make you look like you are not fully committed to the role and just biding your time until you can leave.