Former Google employee gives two-year notice before accepting offer -- and still gets the job
Most people know that giving your two-week's notice is the respectful and professional thing to do when quitting a job.
But what if you were to give a notice a staggering two years before you planned to leave?
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For one former Google employee, doing just that paid off big time.
Perhaps honesty is the best policy after all.
Liz Wessel was accepted into Google's associate product marketing manager rotational program in 2012, but didn't accept the offer without clearly stating that she had other career aspirations beyond Google.
Wessel told CNBC:
"I said to the recruiter, 'I definitely love Google, but at the end of the day, I can safely say that Google is a place I want to be for the next two years. After that, I'll probably leave and start a company of my own."
Instead of being off-put, the boldness and transparency that Wessel exemplified impressed her recruiter and still earned her the spot.
Wessel later went on to co-found WayUp, a job connecting site with ties to company's such as Goldman Sachs and Uber, which reached $1 million in venture capital funding within its first two weeks.
Confident in her decision and method of entrepreneurship, Wessel assures:
"I always tell people, you know it's time to quit your job when you can't stop thinking about what you want to do next."
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