Job Advice

Hello foofire

If you go back, and explain why you left earlier, it may well be that they take you back.

After all, it takes character to admit oneself made a mistake.

Many Companies hire on the basis of both ability plus character.

You have nothing to lose, and perhaps much to gain by trying your old firm.

Advise progress here, with

Kind Regards....

I would not hesitate to go back and ask. But I would not "beg for your job back." Let them know you are interested, don't give them the impression you are desperate.

I have had a number of colleagues who have left and come back. In some cases, they got higher positions than when they left. I, myself, did that with a former company. It was fortunate for me because when they sent me out on a project less than a week after coming back, I met a girl who later became my wife.

Go back and see if they have any openings. Tell them you are interested either way. Tell them you liked working there. Employers always like to hire someone already trained as long as you did not 'burn your bridges' when you left.

Foofire,
I suggest you initiate discussions with your old company to determine their attitude about rehiring you. I worked for a major company 3 times. Each time I came back, I got a promotion, well beyond what I would have received if I had stayed as a continuous employee. If you did a good job while you were there, and people respect your abilities, it is safer for them to rehire you than to start out with a stranger.

It happened to me with my previous employer thinking that I transferred to a better company but I was wrong, I did resigned after 3 days..Luckily the vice president of my previous campany got the news and phone me up and ask me to come back. Probably you can start to spread the news that you are interested of coming back and you might get lucky as me.

A good run is better than a bad stand. That is, being in control of your career and making the decision to go is better than having it made FOR you. Every job has it's good and bad points, and the tendency is to remember the good stuff. You may find, if they've been struggling, that the bad stuff is worse now. If you can find fresh opportunities, perhaps with some of the qualities you enjoyed at that job, you can move forward and chalk it up as a lesson learned. Life keeps moving, and you don't get a "do-over".

I thank everyone for your comments and thoughts. It is definitely a lesson learned for the future.

Another approach might be to try getting on, say for a three-to-six months stint, as an indirect hire. Your placement agency would be inclined to look favorably on your former employement and knowledge of the (their client's) company, its line of work, and its people...a low risk situation for them. Once inside, you are in better position to see and get consideration for direct employment. The advantage to the company is that their hiring risks and outlay (that is, for benefits) is reduced over adding a payroll employee.

But sometimes one must learn to live with one's decisions and make the best of it; that's character, too. Given the rough economic times ahead, staying put could be the better part of valor. And, heaven forbid, if the axe swings your way again, you would want to have the benefit of any outplacement support your present employer provides. You must also ask yourself, "Why tempt fate?" Whereas you might have jumped ship at the "awesome" company with no ill effect, doing so again (especially without an advancement, and especially going back) could establish a reputation that you don't really want.

So I would say, carefully weigh your options, and hang tough if you need to. And be not too easily influenced by casual suasion. There's more consequence of taking advise than of giving it.