by Joseph Malek

Created on: May 31, 2009

Believe it or not, there are a few excellent reasons why it would be wise to follow your boss to a new job. There are also a whole lot of reasons why you should not follow your boss to a new job.

In the case of a secretary or an administrative assistant who is judged to be a loyal and a dependable person, if your boss changed employers and you have not worked for your employer, who also once was your bosses employer, it would be wise to change your job for the benefit of a boss who truly respects your abilities and rewards you with a raise or some such incentive to remain within his or her service.

Keep in mind that your boss's replacement might soon replace you if you do not measure up to that new bosses requirements. It is also possible that your new boss has his or her own people and/or business associates who he or she will provide a job to. In which case, you will not be employed for too much longer, as your new boss begins to destroy your work record with one unjustified remark after another, in terms of his or her rating of your job performance. You cannot win because no matter how good you are you are not wanted.

That is the extreme of the bad things that can happen to you. Then again, if you did work several years for the same employer your past work record should negate what your new boss has to say about you. That much is particularly true if you did work for other people who are at the same management level or higher than your new boss.

In other words, you are respected by other people within the company that are just as powerful, if not more powerful, than the person who replaced your previous boss. Then again, if you have five or more years of service with the employer in question, it is not a good idea to give up the accrued benefits you earned for those years of employment. That includes your percentage of your vested interest in the employer contribution to you profit and pension plan, if such a plan exists.

From my point of view, it would be wise to change jobs only if my employer was about to go bankrupt or out of business one way or another. You, being an excellent rated employee, have a good chance of finding similar employment within another company. It is also true that you might not know the true reason why your boss is leaving the company, if that is the case. Then again, know yourself and your own abilities and never trust the word of people who truly are not directly related to you.

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