#05: Why are you leaving (or did you leave) this position?

TRAPS: Never badmouth your previous industry, company, board, boss, staff, employees or customers. This rule is inviolable: never be negative. Any mud you hurl will only soil your suit.

Especially avoid words like “personality clash”, “didn’t get along”, or others which cast a shadow on your competence, integrity, or temperament.

BEST ANSWER:

(If you have a job presently)
If you’re not yet 100% committed to leaving your present post, don’t be afraid to say so. Since you have a job, you are in a stronger position than someone who does not. But don’t be coy either. State honestly what you’d be hoping to find in a new spot. Of course, as stated often before, you answer will all the stronger if you have already uncovered what this position is all about and you match your desires to it.

(If you do not presently have a job.)
Never lie about having been fired. It’s unethical – and too easily checked. But do try to deflect the reason from you personally. If your firing was the result of a takeover, merger, division wide layoff, etc., so much the better.
But you should also do something totally unnatural that will demonstrate consummate professionalism. Even if it hurts , describe your own firing – candidly, succinctly and without a trace of bitterness – from the company’s point-of-view, indicating that you could understand why it happened and you might have made the same decision yourself.

Your stature will rise immensely and, most important of all, you will show you are healed from the wounds inflicted by the firing. You will enhance your image as first-class management material and stand head and shoulders above the legions of firing victims who, at the slightest provocation, zip open their shirts to expose their battle scars and decry the unfairness of it all.

For all prior positions:
Make sure you’ve prepared a brief reason for leaving. Best reasons: more money, opportunity, responsibility or growth.
Share |

5 comments:

Unknown said...

pls give some example how to answer..

Unknown said...

pls give some example how to answer..

Unknown said...

pls give some example how to answer..

Anonymous said...

Have you seen hrinterviewer.com for live webcam interviews. This is something that I have seen be real effective in getting a job. Sometimes it is easy to talk to someone than it is to write the prefect resume, and lets be real, how many people read these days. I own my own company and have interviewed lots of prospects and I have hardly read a third of the resumes. Everyone I have hired, have been people that I actually met. That is why I recommend checking out this site and using it.

Chitrangi Saxena said...

Your all post is very nice thankyou so much for sharing such a great information with us. You can also visit our blog Jobs for Pregnant Women

Post a Comment