Why Did You Leave Your Job? How to Answer this Interview Question

Why Did You Leave Your Job?

The job interviewer will ask this question to find out how much of a risk employing you would be, because your reason to leave your previous job could be applied to the position you seek, in the future.

To avoid damaging your chances for the job you’d like to get, you have to word your reply in a way that doesn’t mention personal reason such as a wish for a greater salary, greater bonuses, or anything that might hint at the idea that your needs will have priority, and impact negatively on the company goals.

Wrong Reasons To Have Left Your Job.

These are reasons that shouldn’t be used a reply to this question, because they’ll reflect badly on your attitude.

• Workplace setting: Bad situations on the workplace can leave bad feelings on anyone, regardless of the exact cause. Still, your reliance as a team-player might be questioned, if you mention past problems about it, or criticize people and the company. If the cause of your problem was your boss, nothing about it should be ever reported to the new work place.

Anything you say on your past boss, or the past company your worked for, will reach your future boss, and they will envision how easily you could say the same to them in future. When you mention your past profession in a job interview, it should always been because of how much you enjoyed it, and because of similarities to the one you aspire for.

• Bigger salary: Your goal during the interview is to make the best impression possible on the job interviewer, and the way to do that it’s to show how opportunity, job quality and the details specific of the position you are applying for have just as much weight, if not more, as the monetary aspects of it.

You need to keep it in mind through all of the interview. Telling that money was for you an issue, in your past job, might put in doubt the sincerity of your own words.

Answering To “Why Did You Leave Your Job?”

Your objective when answering this question will be to be neutral, and avoid any issues that might weight on the desired profession.

• Professional growth: If you handle the question right, it can turn into an occasion to highlight how opportunity and improvement are important to you. A few lines about how you wish for a position with new challenges, to prove yourself and better yourself, will show that and won’t reflect badly on the past profession.

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