If you're pining for your old job after realizing the grass wasn't, in fact, greener, weigh the pros and cons of boomeranging. One argument in favor of your return: Your old employer may very much want you back.
"We've seen an emerging trend in talent acquisition to target former employees — they know the business, the workplace culture and have lower onboarding costs," Jennifer Brick, a career coach, told Make It.
And thanks to a hot job market and talent shortages in certain fields, you may be able to come back with a higher salary or more attractive benefits.
No matter how enticing an offer to boomerang may seem, your biggest task will be "ensuring that the reason you left in the first place has been addressed or resolved," said Amy Zimmerman, chief people officer of Relay Payments.
But that may be harder than it seems. "Social psychologists have shown us that we as humans have a remarkable tendency to fall back into unhealthy personal relationships and this probably holds true at work, too," said Harris.
Examine your reasoning for leaving in the first place. If you liked your job before but received a tempting offer, you may be just fine returning. But if incompetent leadership or a toxic work culture prompted your departure, they are "still likely to be there," Brick said.
"You might want to think twice before signing the dotted line again," Brick added.
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