Personal Advancement
Boomerang employeesPeople increasingly are returning to previous jobs after raising small children or pursuing other opportunities. But can you leave the same company twice and still get your old job back? AP |
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People increasingly are returning to previous jobs after raising small children or pursuing other opportunities. But can you leave the same company twice and still get your old job back?
By following a few tips, workers can return to a position for a second time around.
First, help to make your successor's transition as seamless as possible, and don't leave your desk or office in a mess, said Vicki Rossetti, v-p of talent management for Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.
"Leave the organization and your particular business unit in a good place," she said.
Maintain your relationships. Keep in touch with old colleagues and friends, even if you plan only a short absence. Check in with previous clients who can serve as references.
Keep a list of your accomplishments handy to remind your managers of what you offer to the company.
Remember there's no guarantee that you'll get your old job back.
"We would expect that employees would still go through the interview process," Rossetti said. Boomerang employees do have an extra edge, though, because they already know the culture and value of the company, she added. Plus, the company wants to make good on its investment in training you.
Provided you don't burn any bridges, your old company just might welcome you back with open arms.
MINIMUM WAGE MOVIE MEMORIES
While most celebrities get paid per movie deal, a few starlets have at least played the part of an minimum-wage stiff on the silver screen. A few roles rise to the top, working-class characters we related to and commiserated with -- or at least laughed at long enough to forget our own low-wage jobs.
Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite takes the cake for portraying the most memorable hourly job on film for his toil as a chicken farmhand, according to a new poll.
Heder's character -- who suffered through lunches of hard-boiled eggs and raw-egg-yolk shakes -- won 33% of the votes in the nonscientific survey by SnagAJob.com, an hourly employment job site.
Coming in second was Jennifer Aniston as a waitress in the cult comedy Office Space, followed by dog-walker Jennifer Lopez in Monster-in-Law. Judge Reinhold as a cook in the Fast Times at Ridgemont High won 18% of the votes.
Nearly 3,000 votes were cast in the poll on the SnagAJob website.
How many hours a week do you work?