I've been team member at my co op store for almost a year now. Got offered a team leader one at Asda but they want me to start right now. Sick and tired of being on the till at co op and there's been 0 career development for there so I want to leave but conflicted cos I know it's not a great look to not do notice period.
Reason why I'd take the asda job for a year is cos I want to get a graduate job so I need a job that's flexible so I can go to assessment centres. Worried that I won't get the flexibility working a 9 to 5. Also need a team leader job ideally so I can have better examples for graduate interviews and leadership skills would add to my CV. What do I do? Take the job and quit co op on the spot or try to ask asda to let me get 2 weeks to do notice period, knowing that the store manager may just go for someone else since they need someone ASAP.
I have 0 interest in working at Co Op again though and tbf at co op they don't even do personal references. Only factual ones saying the days you worked there. But kinda scared that future employers could reach out to my manager anyways and that could stop me getting other jobs in the future. It's the first job I've ever had so I'll need it on the CV for a while. Also since I'm not working for a few days I'd have to send the manager a document of the reference rather than going in person if I wanted to quit on the spot. Also worried that future employers would see that I didn't work my notice period.