How Can I Gracefully Resign Without Offending My Boss and Colleagues?

Since I did not get any reply, I am posting this again.

Dear Members,

I seek your suggestions and inputs on the following. I want an excuse (sounding like a genuine reason), but I do not want to offend my management, superiors, and colleagues. I want to bow out with grace. However, the actual reason being:

- I have started to get bored of the current job.
- I find it difficult to motivate myself and do not want this to percolate down to my team of 36 people.
- I have been in the current industry/sector for about 10 years now.
- After a lot of introspection, I feel I am actually getting bored with the industry/sector itself rather than the job itself.
- Is a change in the industry okay at this stage? Is trying something new common at this stage of one's career?
- How do HR professionals perceive this kind of move from one industry to another?

Hi,

Since you haven't received any responses, I am taking the liberty to forward my views on your query. Let me start in the reverse order and begin by answering your last query first.

Changing one's job is perfectly okay. It is the natural thing to do to progress financially, emotionally, and functionally. Ideally, it would have been better for you to change jobs in a 3-5 year time span so that your experience can be leveraged faster to better job content and rewards. However, you need to be careful that you don't shift too often, or you would not be considered a job-stable person. It is great that you are contemplating a change, but I would caution you to find the right job before you resign. Sometimes the known devils are better than the unknown devils.

I would urge you to try and find some self-motivation to continue because I suspect that you are happy with the pay scale, the work environment, your colleagues, etc., in the present job. If some of those factors are missing in the new job, then you are back to square one, feeling depressed and stupid. However, if you get a good break with a substantial pay rise and a job description that is both challenging and interesting to you, then please move on.

Assuming the above, your resignation can be fairly straightforward, and the core matter could read as under:

"I have received a wonderful job offer that includes a more challenging job profile and a substantial increase in compensation. While I have enjoyed my long stint with you, I believe it is time for me to scale up my career, and the present opportunity seems perfect for that. I would, of course, miss the work environment, the exceptional superiors, and my fantastic co-workers and subordinates, but I need to accelerate my career and hence am putting in my papers with a request to accept the same at the earliest."

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Best wishes to you.

Regards,

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