How to Write a Perfect Resignation Letter

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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How to Write a Perfect Resignation Letter    The most important thing to know about writing a resignation letter is that it’s not the way you should give your boss the news. When you resign, you should do it via a real conversation with your manager — in person if you work in person or via phone or Zoom if you’re remote. Your boss should not learn that you’re leaving by finding a letter on their desk! Nor should you walk into their office, hand them the letter, and stand around awkwardly while they read it, Hollywood movie conventions to the contrary. (Hollywood also thinks that you negotiate a salary by writing your desired number on a slip of paper and pushing it across the table. Hollywood is weird and appears to be populated by people who have not worked in many non-Hollywood office jobs or who behaved really oddly when they did.) So if a resignation letter isn’t the way you announce your departure, what’s it for? It’s intended to be documentation of your decision — a bureaucratic detail, not the main event. You have your resignation conversation with your boss and then you follow up with your resignation in writing to formalize it and ensure there are no misunderstandings later. This is primarily in your employer’s interests; they don’t want you, for example, to be able to file for unemployment and claim that they laid you off when you actually left voluntarily or to later allege that you were wrongfully fired. But writing a resignation letter can protect you as well — for example, if anyone raises questions later on about whether you truly gave two weeks’ notice. Here’s the second most important thing to know about how to write a resignation letter: It should be short. Really short. This letter is not the place to air your complicated feelings about leaving your job, or your frustration with your boss, or your disappointment that you weren’t promoted or given better assignments. You might choose to share those details in your exit interview (though that doesn’t always make sense, either), but your resignation letter definitely isn’t the place for them. Continued here

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