Handed in Notice but now work have present a counteroffer

[Jourl]

How do you decide what to do in this situation? I've never been in this situation before.

I looked for a new job as I felt like I wasn't progressing how I wanted to and landed a brilliant offer with a great opportunity to become a Partner.

However, when I handed my Notice in, my current employer has suddenly revealed their progression plans for me, stating they will do anything to keep me.

It feels like a kick in the teeth it's taken me hanging my notice in to get what I wanted but it shouldn't have been a surprise as I know colleagues who had to do the same.

I had expressed to them my career desires but they're claiming I wasn't assert enough about how soon I wanted them (I disagree).

My post seems like a ramble of thoughts because that's how my brain is right now. One hand I've a brilliant new job opportunity but I am nervous to take it as I LOVE my current team and I enjoy what we do. But then if I don't take the new job, I'm worried I'll be resented by my MD anyway and I don't want to miss out on a chance to work at this new place with clear route to becoming a Partner.

What would you do and how would you begin rationalising your thoughts?

I was given a new area to manage in addition to my existing work. Told them it was not possible. Told it would be temporary. Spent 2 years asking for this to be reviewed, including 12 months of saying I could not do what they wanted. Finally resigned. Suddenly they were willing to work with me on what I asked for. I told them they had had plenty of time to take my requests on board and to take what I was seriously. And that they had used up my goodwill. Best decision ever.

Leave!

Absolutely this. Your move may well trigger more progression. Your old employer held you back.

You might stay because you really like your team. But if your team are being treated the way you were by your company - they might well be planning to leave soon. What I'm saying is the team might not stay the same after say six months, and this would add to the dissatisfaction you felt with the company in the first place.

Second. They've chosen to blame YOU for not being assertive enough. That's their excuse for not promoting you when clearly rival firms want to.
Well, you were assertive enough to go out and get a job with better prospects, weren't you?

Leave. Years ago, this happened to me - I chose to stay, worst decision ever. Once you have the mindset to move on, staying really isn’t an option

I’d leave. I had similar in that I was overlooked for promotion so I found another job and handed in my notice.

My boss then said could they offer me more money to stay and I said if I’d have not been overlooked for promotion my salary would’ve been in line with my new role. He went very quiet after that.

I would add though that my main worry about leaving was I liked the people but in my new job I work with people who are just as amazing and friendly etc.

Leave.

I haven’t read all the replies but I’m sure I’m echoing others when I say leave!

They haven’t even offered you anything better, and only offered you what they have when you said you were going, shows how much they value your worth. When someone shows you who they are - believe them!

A point that stood out, you said you don’t agree with their values. This will only get worse at a higher level. Leave and walk into your new job as a partner. I too have hindered myself remaining somewhere where I thought my loyalty and worth was valued, and it wasn’t!

Fresh new start, new challenges and bigger things await. Don’t worry about new staff dynamics, that will happen wherever you go and also if you stay and new managers come in, same thing happens.

Good Luck x

Leave

They are offering what you wanted but they'll be resentment on both sides; you because it took getting offered a new job to get them to offer what you wany & then because they'll feel you pushed them into a corner to get a promotion.

Go somewhere new where you will be valued & devlop your career.

Ask them what can they actually offer you, in terms of promotion, pay rise and partnership.

This!

Never accept a counter offer. Companies who don't value you until you signal you're leaving aren't really bothered about you, more cross about the effort that goes into replacing you.

Leave

Leave.

It shouldn’t take you handing your notice in for them to suddenly recognise your talents.

As for them not knowing what your career goals are, that’s a then problem, they should of been coaching and mentoring you if they value that much.

They don’t want to you to leave because it will cost them more than any counter offer it would take to replace you. If they cared they would of showed it sooner.

My vote goes to accept the offer and give it six months. It always looks good on your CV to be promoted while in post.

There will always be good offers outside, best give them a chance to deliver on their promises.

If there's the least backsliding on promises or awkwardness, look around for another new role outside, using your new position to negotiate another step up in a new organisation.

The OP doesn’t need anything from the new job to improve her CV, she already has a great offer from another company and the promotion may never appear.

Surely this only works if the current employer is actually offering a real promotion, i.e. a new role and job title with new challenges. If they are just offering a pay rise but no promotion, there is nothing to go on the CV.

This.

Surely that's good because you can all form the partnership together. What I mean is as others have only been partners for a relatively short time they won't be set in their ways.

@Jourl you say your current employer is only matching your new employer: to me that shows they are doing only the bare minimum to keep you, if they truly valued you they would exceed the new employer's offer by a considerable amount to tempt you to stay!

Leave. Trust your original desire to move. Your current employers don't truly value you and you'll have a "marked card" now that you've demonstrated that you're willing and able to move. Your original date of giving notice is still valid for calculating your leaving date.

The counteroffer will not change things and you'll likely end up leaving anyway in a few months.

Don't risk resenting your current workplace for a missed opportunity at a promotion.

Congratulations on securing a new role and good luck - I hope you take it.

An update, a bidding war seems to have begun and I now feel horribly overpriced

What's the current state then op?

Leave

Still leave.