How long should you stay in a new job before leaving?

[Jajal]

What’s the consensus of the minimum amount of time you have to put into a new job before moving to not look flakey to future employers. A year? (Please no!) 6 months?

signed a woman who joined a new terrible company a month ago and has been crying in her car pretty much daily for the past two weeks before heading home.

I don't think it is a problem having a short-term job on your cv. You write down that the role itself turned out to be entirely different from what was advertised.

Exactly. I'd respect a candidate for this (assuming their CV otherwise looked normal)

It’s fine to leave quickly and say in interview the job wasn’t as described or the culture wasn’t the right fit. As a one-off you will get away with this. If you have a string of them that might raise eyebrows. Or just leave it off your CV if you aren’t there long.

I had this once. Knew within the first 6 weeks I’d made a terrible mistake. My boss was a narcissistic bully. I stayed for 3 years and was a wreck when I left and my self confidence took a battering. Would never do that again or recommend anyone else do. Ironically I had a few sessions with a coach (at my own expense) right at the beginning and her advice was to leave immediately and I ignored it but she was absolutely right in hindsight.

ASAP. The earlier you do it the better.

thank you all, I submitted my resignation email and the relief was instant, celebrating tonight with a takeaway. I know it hasn’t been long but it was just soul crushing, going to spend the weekend looking at job applications.

Yeyyyyy! Have a good evening fingers crossed for a new and better job soon xx

Have a lovely evening, hopefully you will sleep well tonight!

Good luck with your job hunting, things will definitely pick up in September, they always do 💐

Congratulations OP, I feel your relief! I try and stick out for a minimum of a year at jobs, and generally end up staying way too many years.

I left one job after a half a day though, and another after 3 months (tbf that wasn’t my choice, I failed probation, but they were awful people), and another after a month. You honestly know when something is too awful for it to be worth presevering with.

I worked out I'd made a mistake a week into a new job. It took me another 2 weeks to get another job, then I handed my one week's notice in (they'd not given me a contract, so I plumped for statutory notice only). I was on holiday for my last week, so didn't actually work my notice.

OP - There is no minimal time - I’ve known people to leave within an hour because the environment isn’t right for them. Your mental health is more important - even if you have to take an interim role before securing a permanent post.

don’t let them get to you.

Best of luck with your job search x

Aww amazing! Have a lovely weekend celebrating 🥳

I think it depends on why you'd choose the new job, is there an obvious advantage of it? I've not been at my remote job at year and I've applied for my dream hybrid job and it's be easy to explain to anyone why I'd want to move on. I'm not just staying just so it won't look bad on my CV, life is too short!

I've been in my new role just two months this week and already thinking of quitting.
It is a new team/ service. So many cock ups from day 1. they opened up the service with two out of fourteen staff in place creating huge backlogs of referrals keeping vulnerable people waiting weeks without help. They mis sold the job to people and the job has turned out to be completely different to the one advertised hence frantic training trying to get people up to speed. many of the new team are unhappy. My manager has ranted at me this week for a perceived misdemeanor even after I had profusely apologised. He is unprofessional in so many ways. the problem is I actually really love the work but the toxic environment is making me think I won't last long. Was in my last job four years and loved my old team, but sadly got made redundant.

i started a job and knew from day one it was a mistake but decided i had to give it a year. ended up being there 18 months. it did get better (i cried everyday the first two months) but i’m still glad i left

Just an update but I was able to secure another (in comparison very lovely) job quite quickly. I was very diplomatic in my interview with my new company about why I was leaving, but the interviewer knew of the company and had had friends, family etc who had worked there and also left so he was like “no I understand why you’re leaving” with a knowing look and I think just wanted to give me space on his lifeboat essentially!

Excellent news!

I’ve left a job in under half an hour before, two other jobs after two days and another after three days. All awful. When you know, you know

Amazing you got a job so quickly!

DD just started a new job and she said the role was misrepresented at interview - they’re so short staffed and she’s doing everything - whereas she was taken in for a very specific role. It’s so annoying that employers do this.

Awesome, well done. You must be relieved too.

Ah, that's fantastic news, well done 👏💐

Congrats on your new role!

I started work at a company where I worked for numerous years before being made redundant (from the same place a few years back) at the beginning of the year. I handed in my notice last month. It’s been much worse this time round. I’ve had constant illness throughout the employment my hair started falling out. I only went back as I really needed a job but it wasn’t the right move.

I’m pleased you found something else - hope you have a much more positive experience.

This was me once. I stayed nearly 2 years and in the end I’d said I was leaving many times.