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Today, I want to share with you some free sample letters of resignation. Statistics tell us that the average American worker is making a job change (whether voluntary or involuntary) every 3.2 years. What this means for you as a career professional is that you have to get used to this idea of change. The only true way to handle change is to understand what is changeless about you. The ability to handle change will be a skill that will require development for those professionals that want to work in a corporate environment. One of the ways to manage change well is to know the proper ways to handle transitions in your career. One tool is to have a solid resignation letter that you keep in the same file with your resume. When it comes to designing a resignation letter, there are four main points for you to consider.

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According to The GlassHammer , a website created for “women executives in finance, law, technology, and big business,” women public accountants don’t stay in the field for long. In a recent article , GlassHammer reports that many women successfully begin careers as accountants, but they leave after only a few years. And no one is sure why.

The article quotes Tammy Young, Moss Adams’ Managing Director of Human Resources. According to Young, one reason that women may not be enjoying as much success in accounting is due to lack of women leaders in the field, which means fewer networking connections, since leadership in accounting has been, historically speaking, almost all male.

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I read a statistic this week that was quite shocking! A nationwide survey was taken, and out of all of the respondents only 50.7% were satisfied with their jobs.  These numbers have been rapidly declining since the 1990’s. Why is that?

For many professionals, work has just become a way to collect a paycheck. While it is noble to support your family even if the work is miserable for you, is that really what you were born to do? It is a sad day in America when the norm is to hate our jobs and belittle management on every decision that is made.

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