10 Mistakes People Make When Quitting

Jeff Altman
6 min readSep 26, 2023

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

You’ve interviewed for a while and now it’s time to give notice because you found a new position. Don’t make any of these ten mistakes.

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Hi, I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m called the Big Game Hunter. . . It started to happen when I worked in recruiting. I would hunt down leaders and staff for organizations and did that for a long time. Now I provide no BS career advice to people globally. That can relate to anything ranging from a job search, to resolving workplace issues, to a lot of things in the middle. Holistically, think of your career, and I’m someone who supports people with being better at it.

Today, I’m going to talk with you about 10 mistakes people make when it comes time to quit their job. And the first one is the obvious one — burning their bridges. You don’t want to be critical of people, the organization, or your manager on the way out the door. Why? Because you never know when these were these folks are going to wind up next. And you’re hypercriticism because you’re feeling good and you’re angry, can wind up hurting you at the next organization you go to, because you’re not going to be at this firm for the next 30 years of your life. Right? So don’t burn your bridges. When asked about why you…

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