You’ve decided it’s time to start the next chapter of your professional journey, and after a discreet and strategic job search, you’ve landed the position you’ve been looking for. Congratulations! But before you shift your full attention to your future with your new employer, you’ll still need to make a clean break with your current company. Here are a few moves that can keep your exit classy and your professional relationships intact as you walk out the door.

1. Give two week’s notice. Revealing your plans too far in advance can encourage your employers to hustle you out before you’re ready. And giving notice at the last minute can create some challenges for your employers as they scramble to replace you—challenges that may leave them with some annoyance and resentment. Fortunately, there’s a perfect way around this conundrum. In almost every business in every professional industry in the country, it’s standard and acceptable practice to give notice and leave two weeks later.

2. Less is more. Share the details of your future position only with close friends and on a need-to-know basis. As you send out email announcements to your partners, coworkers, and clients, just say that you’re moving on. Don’t specify where or why.

3. Put as much effort as you can into your final projects. Everyone loves an employee who keeps working hard and taking her projects seriously even after she’s landed a position elsewhere. Doing this will show your current bosses and coworkers that you respect them as people (since they’re no longer your bosses and coworkers) and you don’t want to leave them in the lurch.

4. Don’t gloat, don’t brag and don’t loudly celebrate the fact that this is your final launch meeting/weekly team meeting/conference call etc, etc. Talk about the things you’ll miss. Stay quiet about the things you won’t miss.

5. Stay punctual and professionally dressed. Don’t start showing up at work in your pajama pants. And try not to arrive at your meetings or roll into the office an hour late every day.

For additional strategies that can help you stay in your employer’s good graces as you say goodbye, contact the Texas Staffing pros at Expert.