Time between firms? Forum

[Anonymous User]

How much time is appropriate to ask for between firms? Is 3 months from acceptance of offer to start date too long? 2 months? I’m expecting this time to include both conflicts and 2 weeks notice.

[sparty99]

How much time is appropriate to ask for between firms? Is 3 months from acceptance of offer to start date too long? 2 months? I’m expecting this time to include both conflicts and 2 weeks notice.

3 months?! They are going to think you are lazy or you risk of a downturn and the offer getting pulled for financial reasons. You will be lucky to get 1 month. You could leave during the conflict check, but that is risky. Try to give 2 weeks notice, but use week 2 as your final vacation days.

[lolwutpar]

Throw out a start date and see what they say. Depends on what they're giving you as far as bonus is concerned as well.

I've taken a month+ between biglaw jobs. Fucking amazing. Take as much as you can.

[nixy]

Just ask politely. They’re not going to think you’re lazy or pull the offer due to economic changes (unless the world really goes to hell in 3 months in which case you have bigger problems). I think if you want to justify it right now you could easily throw out something like visiting family/family commitments that had to be put off due to covid. But just feel them out - ask what start date they’re looking for and go from there, and be prepared for pushback on your preferred date and decide how you want to handle that.

I never understand why people freak out about the idea taking a break between jobs. If you take a vacation in between you won’t need to take one for a while after you start.

[2013]

As a poster above mentioned, this may also differ based on how much in signing bonuses they are giving you. If they’re paying you six figures, they probably need you ASAP. I don’t think 3 months is going to fly, but it never hurts to ask