Yesterday, I got an email from the Admissions Office at Stanford saying that they had hired a company to do background checks of all its admitted students for the Class of 2006 to verify the information that they had put in their applications, including information about one's current employer. Apparently, these background checks are going to start today and go until the end of May.
This is problematic because I wasn't planning on putting in my notice of resignation until June 15 and I'm worried that the search company's inquiry will alert the HR people at my company that i'm on my way out. It's not like I'm trying to hide it, but I want to make sure that I give my notice at the right time to avoid any weirdness in my work environment over the next couple of months until my last day. I might just turn in my letter of resignation in the next week or two so rumors won't swirl around about my impending departure...I figure that it would be tacky for my company to find out from an outside source that I will be leaving soon.
On the other hand, should I even be worried about how tacky it would look? I'm going to be leaving to attend one of the top business schools in the world and, if people get salty about my resignation, part of me thinks that it more of a negative reflection on them. This whole thing has me stressing out and I don't even know why....I know that I'm going to be in Cali starting this Fall, so this should just be a simple formality. Dang, I've got a lot to figure out in the next few days.
Posted by marquis930 at May 18, 2004 04:14 PM