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TRC Business
Paid consulting, assessments, digital products and premium exit support for professionals who want the decision handled properly.
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India’s first dedicated, full-time resignation consultancy
Don’t just quit.
Exit strategically.
You were taught how to get hired. Nobody taught you how to leave. The Resignation Consultant™ is a professional consultancy for the most consequential and least advised moment in a career — your resignation.
Confidential by default Legally informed, not legal advice India today, global by design
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TRC Movement
Education, research, stories and public conversation that change how India understands resignation and career exits.
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TRC Social Impact
Free and affordable resources today; sponsored and subsidised exit support for those who cannot pay, tomorrow.
See the commitment →The problem
A career decision worth lakhs, made in a bad week, over one paragraph of text.
There is an entire industry devoted to helping you join a company. Recruiters, coaches, resume writers, interview trainers, referral networks. For leaving one, there is almost nothing.
So resignations get improvised. Notice periods are misread. Buyouts are agreed to without arithmetic. Letters are written at 1am and cannot be unsent. Relieving letters go uncollected. Counteroffers are accepted for the wrong reasons. Good people leave badly, and it follows them for years.
TRC exists to close that gap. We treat resignation as what it actually is — a professional transaction with legal, financial, reputational and emotional consequences — and we help you execute it properly.
India’s resignation landscape
The need is not anecdotal.
65%
of professionals in India are actively seeking new roles — from a survey of nearly 3,000 professionals.Source: Michael Page, Talent Trends India 2025
58%
of surveyed employees who had resigned said they left because of a toxic boss who promoted unhealthy competition.Source: Harappa Insights attrition study, reported June 2023
30 days
is the statutory minimum resignation notice for a shop or commercial establishment employee in Uttar Pradesh — and the same section permits a contract to require longer, which is how 60 and 90-day clauses arise.Source: U.P. Dookan Aur Vanijya Adhishthan Adhiniyam, 1962, s.20(1)
Every figure above is attributed to a named, dated, publicly available source and quoted in its original wording on our Research & Sources page. Where a number could not be verified precisely, we removed it rather than round it.
Basis of the claim
Why TRC™ can say “India’s first”
The claim is a specific one, so here are its terms, stated plainly enough to be tested.
- Dedicated
- Resignation and career exit is the whole practice — not one service inside a coaching, recruitment or HR offering.
- Full-time
- It is the founder’s sole professional occupation, not a side practice or an occasional engagement.
- Professional consultancy
- A commercial firm with published scope, fixed-price modules and defined deliverables — not a forum, support group or content channel.
- Resignation consultant
- An adviser retained by the employee and working on the exit itself: the decision, the notice, the letter, the negotiation and the documentation.
- India
- Established and operating in India, consulting nationally.
On that definition TRC™ is India’s first dedicated, full-time resignation consultancy, and Palvinder Singh Bharjiya India’s first resignation consultant and strategist. Our market review located employer-side exit-management providers, outplacement firms, general career coaches and employment-law practices — and no dedicated, employee-side resignation consultancy. The method behind that review is published in full, so anyone can check it.
The engagement
Four stages, one outcome: an exit you would defend in writing.
Every engagement follows the same architecture, whether it runs for one week or three months.
Stage one
Decide
We separate exhaustion from a genuine career decision. You leave this stage knowing whether to resign, when, and on what terms — or that staying is the stronger move.
Stage two
Prepare
Documents, finances, notice arithmetic, contractual obligations, references and the letter itself. Nothing improvised, nothing left to the day of.
Stage three
Communicate
The conversation with your manager, the note to HR, the questions you will be asked and the answers you will give. Rehearsed before it happens.
Stage four
Exit clean
Handover, notice negotiation, full and final settlement, relieving and experience letters, and a transition plan for what comes next.
What we handle
The complete resignation journey.
From the first doubt to the relieving letter in your inbox. Individually, or as one managed engagement.
Should you resign at all?
A structured, unemotional review of your situation before you act — including the case for staying.
Resignation strategy & planning
Sequencing, timing, dependencies and a written plan for the whole exit, not just the letter.
Professional resignation letters
Drafted to your situation, tone and company culture — accurate, courteous and impossible to misread.
30, 60 and 90-day notice periods
How to structure a long notice period so it protects your reputation and your next move.
Early release & notice negotiation
Scripts and strategy to shorten notice without burning the relationship or your paperwork.
Notice-period buyout guidance
What buyout actually costs, who should pay it, and how to model it before you commit.
Manager & HR communication
What to say, in what order, to whom, and what to never put in writing.
Counteroffer evaluation
A cold read of the counteroffer in front of you — and what it usually means six months later.
Exit interview preparation
Leaving a strong, honest, defensible impression, even in a workplace that has treated you badly.
Relieving & experience letters
Getting the documents you are entitled to, on time, in the right form.
Difficult & complex exits
Toxic managers, bonds, retaliation, unpaid dues and situations that need careful handling.
Executive exits & transitions
CXO, VP and country-head level departures where reputation, notice and optics all carry weight.
Core Modules
Transparent, fixed-scope pricing.
Expertise is a paid service and we price it openly. No discovery-call pricing games, no hidden retainers. Five modules, each building on the last.
Core Module 1
Professional Exit
For professionals who have decided to leave and want the exit documented and timed correctly.
₹2,490
One-time · typical turnaround 3–5 days
- 2 strategy calls
- Full case review
- Notice-period calculation
- Resignation letter drafting
Core Module 2
Essential Exit
For exits that need negotiation, a paper trail and someone on call while it happens.
₹6,990
One-time · typical engagement 2–3 weeks
- Everything in Professional Exit
- 4 strategy calls
- Employer-negotiation preparation and script
- Legal opinion memo — prepared with independent employment-law input
- WhatsApp support during working hours
Core Module 3
Strategic Exit Plus
For bonds, buyouts and contested notice periods where the numbers and the contract both matter.
₹14,990
One-time · typical engagement 3–6 weeks
- Everything in Essential Exit
- Real-time WhatsApp support
- Bond and buyout modelling
- Contract and policy legal review by an independent practitioner
- Counteroffer evaluation
Free, no account needed
Not sure whether it is burnout or a career decision?
Seven questions, two minutes, no email required. The TRC Resignation Readiness Assessment gives you a structured read on where you actually stand — and what to do next, including the option of doing nothing yet.
Beyond the business
A consultancy and a correction.
TRC is a commercial practice with a social purpose written into its structure, not bolted on for appearances.
TRC Movement
Resignation in India carries a stigma it does not deserve. The Movement is our education, research and public-conversation arm: plain-language guides, published research on exit practices, and stories from professionals who left well. Awareness first, advocacy next.
What the Movement is doing →TRC Social Impact
The people who most need help exiting a bad workplace are often the least able to pay for it. Free tools and affordable self-help resources are live now. Sponsored and subsidised consulting, funded by paid engagements and future corporate partners, is being built next.
Our commitment in detail →
For organisations
How your people leave is a statement about how you lead.
Exits are handled worst by the organisations that talk most about culture. TRC works with employers on responsible separation practice, manager education, transition workshops and CSR-aligned employee-transition programmes.
Corporate and CSR partnerships →Who you are working with
Palvinder Singh Bharjiya
Founder, The Resignation Consultant™
“In a world that teaches you how to get hired, almost nobody teaches you how to leave. I built this practice around that silence.”
Palvinder Singh Bharjiya is India’s first resignation consultant and strategist, with more than twenty years of professional experience across industries.
He founded TRC after watching capable professionals stay trapped in workplaces that were damaging them — afraid of contracts they had never read, of managers who traded on that fear, and of a culture that treats leaving as disloyalty. In the worst cases, the cost of that silence has been a life.
Read the full background →Before you ask
Straight answers.
Completely. Every engagement is treated as confidential by default — your employer, your colleagues and your prospective employer will never hear from us unless you instruct us in writing to speak on your behalf.
Case details are only ever discussed in anonymised, unidentifiable form, and only for education or research.
No. The Resignation Consultant™ is a professional consultancy, not a law firm. We provide resignation consulting, strategy, communication guidance, process support, documentation support, negotiation preparation and exit planning — and we explain in plain language how notice periods, settlements and relieving letters normally work.
We do not provide legal advice, legal opinions or legal representation. Where a matter genuinely needs any of those, we say so plainly, and the work is carried out by independent employment-law practitioners rather than by us.
That is the best time to talk to us. A large share of our work ends with a clear, well-reasoned decision to stay — on better terms and with a plan. Resigning is the option, not the objective.
Start with the free resources and the readiness assessment. Neither requires payment or an account.
TRC Social Impact exists precisely for this: as the practice grows, sponsored and subsidised support is being built for people in genuine financial distress. If that is you, write to us and say so.
The practice is built around Indian employment norms today, which is where the deepest need is. The frameworks travel, and international engagements are taken selectively. TRC is being built for global expansion from the outset.
- Confidential by default. Nobody is contacted without your written instruction.
- Nothing is charged automatically. No card is stored anywhere on this site.
- Scope is confirmed in writing by email before any engagement begins.
- Payment is confirmed before your first strategy call is scheduled.
- Matters needing legal opinion or representation are referred to independent employment-law practitioners.
Your resignation is going to happen once. Get it right.
Start with a confidential consultation, or a free 15-minute discovery call if you would rather test the water first.