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Working end: Saying goodbye to a job

Definition, Explanation Tips, Checklist
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Definition, Explanation

Working end means here, to quit an existing employment relationship. There are various possible reasons:

Special forms of a working end are a parental leave and a sabbatical. In both cases, people mostly intend to return to their previous job after a "time-out".

Depending on the reason, future will look different:

  • As soon as a former employee retires, they are paid a pension (“Rente”). Civil servants' pensions differ a little from the normal. In case of reduced earning capacity he/she gets an earning-capacity-reduction benefit
  • For both extraordinary and ordinary dismissal, the company might pay a compensation. Having quit the job, the ex-employee can report unemployed at the labour agency, or work in a new job, or start an independent business
  • For dismissal for operational reasons, employers might offer the transfer to a transfer company or helps with finding a new job: dismissal management
  • A change of job or transfer can be to a new intern job or to a new company
  • Outplacement mostly makes you do the old jon in a new company
  • In case the company runs insolvent, employees are paid an insolvency benefit, but still will be unemployed, normally

Tips, Checklist
  • Every goodbye to a job means an important change in a person's life. To be prepared, use the different support possibilities of your company and of other, advice companies, the internet, publications and your own network
  • Make plans for "after the job"
  • Say goodbye to bosses and colleagues and thank them. Do not burn all your bridges, rather try to keep up contacts
  • Clear your desk, finish projects and pass them on to your successor
  • Do not forget to get a reference certificate from your employer
  • Give back company property like employee IDs, PCs, phones, company cars or documents you have used at home

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