Correction: Resignation Letter Writing Guide with Examples
Corrected by Selen Ikbal Uslu · Content Quality Analyst and English Language Specialist
Selen Ikbal Uslu found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Evolang
- Topic
- Email Templates
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 19 July 2026
The exact change
Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2024). Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). U.S. Department of Labor. DOI: 10.21916/mlr.2024.1 [...] Guerin, L. (2021). The Manager's Legal Handbook (10th ed.). Nolo Press. DOI: 10.4135/9781544393742 [...] Society for Human Resource Management. (2023). Employee Benefits Survey: Trends in Notice Period Policies. SHRM Research. DOI: 10.1177/shrm.2023.4851 [...] "The professional world has a long memory. How you leave a position is remembered just as clearly as what you accomplished while you were there." - Alison Green, Ask a Manager (2018) [...] "Your resignation letter should be the shortest important document you ever write. Every additional sentence is an opportunity to say something you will regret." - Suzanne Lucas, Evil HR Lady, CBS MoneyWatch (2019) [...] "In difficult departures, the resignation letter that says the least protects you the most. Save your detailed account for your attorney, not your employer's HR file." - Lisa Guerin, J.D., The Manager's Legal Handbook, Nolo Press (2021)
Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2024). Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). U.S. Department of Labor. https://www.bls.gov/jlt/ [...] Guerin, L. (2021). The Manager's Legal Handbook (10th ed.). Nolo Press. [...] Society for Human Resource Management. (2023). Employee Benefits Survey. SHRM Research. https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/research/employee-benefits-survey [...] Career advisors commonly note that the professional world has a long memory: how you leave a position is often remembered just as clearly as what you accomplished while you were there. [...] As HR commentators often put it, a resignation letter should be the shortest important document you ever write: every additional sentence is an opportunity to say something you will regret. [...] Employment law guidance generally holds that in difficult departures, the resignation letter that says the least protects you the most: save your detailed account for your attorney, not your employer's HR file.
Why this is better
The References section cites a Bureau of Labor Statistics JOLTS release with a fabricated academic-style DOI. Government statistical releases like JOLTS do not carry DOIs of this form; no such DOI exi; The References section attaches a fabricated DOI to Lisa Guerin's 'The Manager's Legal Handbook,' a Nolo Press practical legal guide. Nolo Press trade legal guides are not assigned academic DOIs, and ; The References section cites a SHRM Employee Benefits Survey report on notice period policies with a fabricated DOI. SHRM survey reports are not assigned academic DOIs, and no SHRM publication matchin; A pull-quote is attributed to Alison Green's 'Ask a Manager' (2018) but this exact wording could not be verified anywhere in her book, blog, or public writing despite extensive searching. The underlyi; A pull-quote is attributed to Suzanne Lucas ('Evil HR Lady') in a specific CBS MoneyWatch column from 2019, but this exact wording could not be verified in her published work.; A pull-quote is
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