{"id":400,"date":"2018-08-08T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2018-08-08T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:27:35","slug":"what-to-say-when-your-interviewer-ask-why-are-you-leaving-your-current-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/08\/what-to-say-when-your-interviewer-ask-why-are-you-leaving-your-current-job\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Say When Your Interviewer Ask “Why Are You Leaving Your Current Job”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interviewing is a little like going on a first date.\u00a0 You want to find out as much as you can about that individual, however you don\u2019t tell them everything.\u00a0 The key is keeping in acceptable truths.\u00a0 This is truth as it relates to answering the question, however doesn\u2019t have to give all the intimate details.\u00a0 Remember, truth is important especially if you are hired as you don\u2019t want something to come out at a later date.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the interviewer asks \u201cWhy you are leaving your current job?\u201d\u00a0 they want to find out several things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this a common thing for you to go from job to job? They are looking to fill a position and if history indicates that you only stay at a job for a particular time period they want to know why? What is the candidate looking for that they haven\u2019t been able to get at other jobs?\u00a0 This opens the interview up to find more out about the candidate and their needs.\u00a0 When seeking out a job, synergy and common factors should exist that benefit both parties. Employers invest a lot of money in recruiting and onboarding and they want to make sure that this is a candidate that will perform the job and fits into their current structure and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interviewer is looking to see how you respond and what you have to say about your current or former employer.\u00a0 That is going to say a lot about the candidate.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, in life you may not get along or like everyone that you come in contact with and that includes bosses.\u00a0 But how it\u2019s handled says a lot about the individual.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some recommended ways to answer that question is to keep the focus on yourself as an individual and what you are trying to accomplish in your career and personal growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Acceptable Truths<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There have been management changes and this was a good time for me to pursue other opportunities.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I feel that I have gone as far as I can go within the organization.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My life has changed and I wanted to pursue opportunities that were more aligned with those changes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was looking for an opportunity that gives me more work, life balance.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I want to caution you to be prepared for additional questions, but once again the focus should be on the individual and not everything that was wrong with their last employer.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is always detrimental to talk badly about your current employer and one of the fastest ways to end an interview.\u00a0 All industries are much smaller than you think and there will always be a way of finding out how this individual has previously performed.\u00a0 If the employer was bad then people in the industry will know about it.\u00a0 The fact that you didn\u2019t focus on that will immediately stand out as a plus. If the candidate is talking badly then they\u2019re really not focused on solutions.\u00a0 Employers are looking for solution orientated individuals.\u00a0 The most obvious reason why you don\u2019t talk badly about a former employer is; if you are doing it on an interview, what are you going to do when you get in the organization if something doesn\u2019t go right for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The key is, always tell the truth, but focus more on opportunities in moving forward than what happened in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interviewing is a little like going on a first date.\u00a0 You want to find out as much as you can about that individual, however you don\u2019t tell them everything.\u00a0 The key is keeping in acceptable truths.\u00a0 This is truth as it relates to answering the question, however doesn\u2019t have to give all the intimate details.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-tips-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bygeorgehr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Job-Interview-1.jpg?fit=1732%2C1154&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9MUik-6s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bygeorgehr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}