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Resignation & Counteroffers

Leaving a job well: contract terms and money checked before you resign, a calm resignation, a counteroffer decided on your own terms, a handover people thank you for and a clean exit.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Resignation & Counteroffers, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🧭 Career Growth

Resignation & Counteroffers

Resigning professionally, handling counteroffers and handover so you leave with relationships and references intact.

  1. Contract notice and leaving terms check
  2. Unconditional offer confirmed before resigning
  3. Bonus, equity and repayment exposure on leaving
  4. Resignation date chosen around pay and vesting dates
  5. Personal records saved before handing in notice
  6. Written reasons for leaving, before anyone asks
  7. Counteroffer walk-away terms set in advance
  8. Short resignation letter drafted and dated
  9. First resignation conversation with your manager, rehearsed
  10. Resignation day run sheet
  11. Notice period week-by-week plan
  12. Handover document for your role
  13. Knowledge transfer sessions with your successor
  14. Client and stakeholder handover log
  15. Always-current role handbook kept between jobs
  16. Exit-ready file of notice terms and money dates
  17. Counteroffer aftermath review month by month
  18. Final pay and benefits reconciliation after leaving
  19. Former colleagues keep-in-touch rhythm
  20. Daily shutdown note in the final fortnight
  21. How counteroffers usually play out
  22. Restrictive covenants read in plain words
  23. Declining a counteroffer without closing the door
  24. Responding to guilt, anger and pressure on resignation
  25. What you can and cannot take when you leave
  26. Exit interview feedback that is useful and safe
  27. Farewell message people actually read
  28. Counteroffer scorecard against your reasons for leaving
  29. Asking for an earlier release date
  30. Garden leave plan
  31. Forfeiture evidence pack for the new employer
  32. Accepting a counteroffer in writing and closing the other offer
  33. Withdrawing a resignation you regret
  34. Paid cover or consulting days after you leave
  35. Retention offer before you have resigned
  36. Telling your team and close colleagues
  37. Exit interview with HR
  38. Last-day checklist for kit, access and farewells
  39. Announcing the move to your network
  40. Three-month check-in with your former manager
  41. Resigning as a manager with a team of your own
  42. Resigning during probation or in the first year
  43. Resigning on or soon after parental leave
  44. Resigning on an employer-sponsored work visa
  45. Leaving a small business or family firm
  46. When someone on your team resigns to you
  47. Resigning from a long-notice public or academic post
  48. Senior or executive resignation and announcement
  49. Leaving to a direct competitor with clean conduct
  50. Leaver terms as a shareholder or partner

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Contract notice and leaving terms check

Before you say a word to your manager, read what you signed. Your contract, any later variation letters and the staff handbook set your notice period, whether the employer can put you on garden leave or pay in lieu, how unused holiday is treated and which restrictions follow you out. Knowing these in advance stops a surprise in the resignation meeting from changing your start date.

First tasks

  • Find your signed contract and any later variation letters tonight
  • Download the current staff handbook sections on leaving and notice
  • Copy the notice, garden leave, holiday and covenant clauses onto one page
  • List the points you cannot interpret and decide who to ask

Unconditional offer confirmed before resigning

A verbal yes from the new employer is not a job. Offers are often conditional on references, background or credit checks, right to work, medical clearance or a signed contract, and people who resign on a conditional offer occasionally find themselves with neither job. Confirming in writing that every condition is cleared is the single most protective step in this area.

First tasks

  • List every condition named in the offer letter with its current status
  • Email the recruiter or hiring manager asking which conditions remain open
  • Return the signed contract and keep a copy of what you sent
  • Hold your resignation until the confirmation email that all conditions are cleared arrives

Bonus, equity and repayment exposure on leaving

Resigning a few weeks too early can cost a year's bonus, a vesting tranche or a pension match, and some contracts ask you to repay a sign-on bonus, relocation costs or training fees if you leave within a set period. Putting a figure and a date against each item shows what leaving costs and what a new employer may be asked to cover.

First tasks

  • Download your latest equity or share plan statement
  • Find the bonus scheme rules and note the employment condition on the payment date
  • Search your offer letters for clauses about repaying sign-on, relocation or training costs
  • Work out the amount at risk for three different resignation dates

Make it yours.

Install Resignation & Counteroffers, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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