Should I quit my job just before getting promoted?

My advice would be to actively seek out a ‘promotion’ outside of the company. It’s much easier to explain that you’re seeking an opportunity for advancement than why you quit a job after just becoming promoted.  Life is too short to stay with a company you’re not excited about working at!

No, you should not. Your decision to quit in June it tells me that this job is not right for you. Therefore you should give your notice, finish any outstanding tasks that, unless finished, would create disproportional headaches for your colleagues, and leave. As you can see, the anticipated promotion does not even enter into the consideration. Unless of course you are only motivated by titles and money in which case I'm not qualified to answer.

Think about it this way: Why do you want to quit? Because waiting to get promoted (probably) isn't going to to change this reason. Also, why stay at a company you are unhappy with? I've been there before and I've learnt that life is too short to work somewhere you dislike, hoping things will get better/change.

Four months is not a long time to wait to get a promotion, and having the more senior title and job under your belt will place you in a better position to get a similar (higher than your current) position at the next company.  So if I assume that having a "leg up" is of interest to you, the easy way to get that leg up is to hang on a little longer. On the other hand, if you are at a large company, they likely have "promotion budgets" and by staying around to collect your promotion, you might be taking that budget away from someone who intends to stay with the company, but might not get promoted if you do.  (Bollocks, you say, if someone is qualified they'll get promoted regardless of whether I do.  I guess you'll just have to trust me that that's not how many large companies work.) You may also be screwing over your current company in that if they know you are on the way out, they would be looking at how to put someone into that new, larger, more responsible position who intends to stay.  By waiting just long enough to get promoted, you may be burning bridges -- which is seldom a good thing.  The world is a lot smaller than one realizes. But perhaps more important is the implication that you could easily go and get a comparable job at another company with "one click of an email."  This implies to me that you'd be moving to another place to do the same thing that you are doing now.  In my experience, this is seldom a solution to what ails you.  People typically move on to do a different kind of role (not your stated reason), or because of dissatisfaction with their direct management (but your statements make it sound like a variety of companies are options for you, suggesting you don't have a particular destination with an awesome manager in mind), or for career advancement (which your "I'm about to get promoted" statements suggests is what you'd achieve by staying put).  So I'd look long and hard at why you want to leave. In short, if advancement is your goal, clearly leaving now makes little sense -- for you.  And leaving at all doesn't appear to make sense, given what you have shared with us.  But leaving now might be helpful to the company you are leaving -- so that they can get on with running their business, and promoting people interested in staying.  And from a future employment standpoint, burning bridges may seem to have no real risk or cost to you at present, but if you have been around the block a few times, you'll realize that such a move has a higher cost than any benefit justifies, in the long run.  The current job market for some skill sets right now makes that hard to see.  But having been through several up and down economic cycles, I can tell you that this "seller's market" for key skill sets is an anomaly.  So, since you don't seem to care about the promotion, or the money, you might as well do what's best for your current employer -- and leave now -- as a way to create the least bad karma in this situation.

Just use your impending promotion to negotiate a better job. If you make $X now, and you'll make $(1.2 * X) when you get promoted, you can generally use that to make $(1.3 * X) or so another job. No reason to wait until you get promoted to use this as leverage.

Relationship over money- Any day! If you take the promotion and leave- You will, in all probability, soil relations with your current employer (boss and maybe some colleagues). Overall- You are asking the wrong question- You need to ask yourself if you are happy where you are- If the current job doesn't excite you then you should look to change- You should not be deciding on basis of - ability to get another job or impending promotion. Ideally, barring major financial constraints (which often exist) - You being in a job should not be correlated with promotion/job market scenario. Hope this helps.

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