Answer this job interview ?...

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Posted: 6/19/2006 3:42:58 PM EDT

When asked, "why do you want to leave your current employer?" What do you say? What is the best answer an interviewer can get thrown back at them?

Posted: 6/19/2006 3:45:11 PM EDT

[#1]

"I don't want to leave - I'd love to find a company that I can stay with until retirement....I need to leave because (insert reasons)"

Posted: 6/19/2006 3:47:18 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
I don't want to leave - I'd love to find a company that I can stay with until retirement....I need to leave because (insert reasons)"

I can't beat that one.

Posted: 6/19/2006 3:47:35 PM EDT

[#3]

"They haven't met my expectations as a professional employer."

Watch them squirm a bit.

Posted: 6/19/2006 3:49:35 PM EDT

[#4]

I'm part time at my current job, 28 years old and need a full time career, it appears my current employer is not ready to offer me full time management position and that is the reason I am searching for employment elsewhere.

Posted: 6/19/2006 3:52:25 PM EDT

[#5]

Many different tacks can serve equally well on that one - Job isn't in line with career goals, seeking to change occupations, wish to get into a different industry, salary not in line with your level of productivity, etc.

The best way IMO is to answer as honestly as possible without creating the impression there is any personal bad blood between you and your present employer.

Posted: 6/19/2006 3:53:29 PM EDT

[#6]

"The receptionist on my floor can't give good head and I think I knocked up the one on the third floor."

"I see you have some hotties here too..."

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:06:59 PM EDT

[#7]

Same reason I left my last 14 jobs (insert reason here).........

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:07:03 PM EDT

[#8]

My current employeer can't offer the challenges that I need professionally. Based upon what I have learned, I feel confident that your company can.

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:12:23 PM EDT

[#9]

OK, seriously.

If you are changing careers:
"I have goals that I have set for myself in my career and I am not able to meet them at my current job."

If you are not changing careers:
"I have reached level where I can no longer be challenged or promoted and I feel that I have a lot to offer a company that can challenge me."

Here is another one:
"They don't pay well."

I have found that the brutal honest answers are the most respected.

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:16:38 PM EDT

[#10]

say that you're being underutilized at your current job

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:16:47 PM EDT

[#11]

"My supervisor has an extreme and disruptive hygene problem. Management seems to be unwilling to confront her about the situation. The circumstances have become untenable in the office"

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:19:41 PM EDT

[#12]

depends on why I'm leaving.

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:40:33 PM EDT

[#13]

my current compney i put down " owner was fucking my paycheck" she(my new boss) said yup ronny(old boss) does that to everyone...you start tomorro

edit to add.. i have also used "personal problems with superviser" and " i didnt like the working conditions"
all have worked so far

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:45:52 PM EDT

[#14]

This is one of the questions I use to figure out if I actually want to work for an employer or not.

My answer: "I don't like feeling like Dilbert."

Smile = Will work for you
Frown= Buh Bye

IF you get a smile, explain why you actually left. (NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT MONEY!)

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:50:31 PM EDT

[#15]

They found out I'm using heroin and I think they're gonna fire me.

I had sex with the boss's daughter.

I've been skimming from the company for two years and they're on to me.

They found my plans to stage a coup within management.

They think I'm disgruntled because I follow people home who piss me off.

Posted: 6/19/2006 4:58:49 PM EDT

[#16]

"These bastards have all kind of rigid rules about crack an' shit. And if you blow one guy in the washroom for beer money, it's like - hey, don't get me started. Then they have this stupid shit like when you're doing business in the parking lot, like 'Where'd you get that copy paper?' and I'm like 'Outta yer ass, bitch!' And they're like 'Is that office furniture your personal property? Are those your printer cartridges?' And I'm like 'Whatever, man.' And they're like 'Off the premises, dude!' And I'm like 'Piss off, Herr Geheimstaatspolizei' And they're like 'Hey Frank, what's the number for 9-1-1?' And they got this like '8:30' rule, as if 8:30 is years before 9:45, and they're just like, anal an' shit, and I'm a creative type. I need a place where I can be me, and give all I have to an employer who respects creativity."

Posted: 6/19/2006 5:39:34 PM EDT

[#17]

LOL

Posted: 6/19/2006 5:43:36 PM EDT

[#18]

I do not think my career is moving forward in that position.

I do not believe it to be a healthy work enviornment.

The boss is a cunt.

Posted: 6/19/2006 5:44:52 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
When asked, "why do you want to leave your current employer?" What do you say? What is the best answer an interviewer can get thrown back at them?

they are transferring my department to (pick some horrible place like detroit or buffalo). they are rif'ing 90 percent of the employees but giving me a raise and a moving allowance. however my blind 95 year old mother lives here and she visits my dad's grave everyday after saying mass at the local church she grew up in and i'm the only family member that lives within 2000 miles and i have to take care of her and so on and so forth.....

Posted: 6/19/2006 5:51:45 PM EDT

[#20]

"The restraining order states that I can't get within 150 feet of my boss, and they won't move my cubicle."

Posted: 6/19/2006 5:53:42 PM EDT

[#21]

Always state you are trying to better yourself.

I have interviewed hundreds of people and the worst thing you can do is babble on about something. Keep the answers straight foraward and always positive. When faced with an obstacle, look at it as an opportunity. Key words to catch on are challenges, opportunities, cooperation,teamwork, and a few others.

Good luck.

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