# Submit Your Resignation

Start your own separation, and follow it through notice and clearance.

A resignation you submit yourself opens a separation record that your manager and HR then work through. It is the same record an administrator would have opened for you, started from your side.

- Open **Submit Resignation** from your own attendance area.

  ![The Submit Resignation screen, with the breadcrumb Worklink, My Attendance, Submit Resignation. An amber Before you start panel reads Your notice period is 30 days, your final last working day is confirmed during review and may differ from the date you request, and you can withdraw this request while it is still awaiting review. An Employee section shows the person's name, employee ID, designation, department, tenure, date of joining, employment type and work location, all read-only. A Resignation Details section follows with a required Reason box, a required Preferred Last Day date field and a Notice Period comparison. Cancel and Review and Continue sit at the foot.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/offboarding/resign.png)
- Read **Before you start**. It names the notice period you are on and warns that the final leaving date is settled during review, not by you.
- Write a **Reason**. It is required, and it is what your manager reads first.
- Set your **Preferred Last Day**. The **Notice Period** panel beside it shows the earliest date your policy allows against the date you are asking for, so a request that falls short of notice is visible before you send it.
- Add **Additional Notes** if there is anything else worth recording, then select **Review & Continue**.

> **Note:**
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> **You do not enter a resignation date**
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> Worklink records the day you submit as the resignation date, and counts your notice from it. That is what produces the calculated last working day below.

## Three last working days, and why

The separation record holds more than one leaving date, which looks redundant until somebody negotiates.

| Field | Means |
| --- | --- |
| Preferred LWD | What you asked for. |
| Calculated LWD | What your notice period produces from the resignation date. |
| Actual LWD | What was agreed. This is the one that counts. |

> **Note:**
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> **Submitting is not leaving**
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> The record opens as a pending separation and goes to your manager. Your employment, your access and your attendance all carry on exactly as before until the last working day arrives.

## What happens next

1. **You submit**: a separation opens
2. **Approval**: your manager and HR review it
3. **Clearance**: each department signs off
4. **Exit interview**: arranged and recorded
5. **Last working day**: the record closes

> **Tip:**
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> **Clearance is what usually holds things up, not approval**
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> Approval is a decision and takes a moment. Clearance is several departments each confirming they have what they need back, and it is the stage that runs past a last working day if nobody chases it.

## Changing your mind

While the separation is still **Pending**, open it and use the actions menu: **Withdraw Resignation** closes it, and **Edit Request** changes what you asked for. Both disappear once it has been reviewed, so a decision made on your behalf is not something you can quietly undo.

> **Note:**
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> **Withdrawing puts you back where you were**
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> Worklink returns your employee status to its active default and tells the people who were notified. Once the separation is completed there is nothing to withdraw, and it takes an administrator to sort out.