Timeline for Is "growth opportunity" a good answer for why are you leaving job?
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| May 9, 2023 at 20:03 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | To add to this, if you actually want "growth opportunities", you still shouldn't say just "growth opportunities" as an answer. Directly tell them how you want to grow and how this relates to both your current employer as well as the company you're interviewing for. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 13:16 | comment | added | frIT | Valuable answer because it shows that the exchange has 2 sides, the employer also wants to get something out of it. OP would do well to approach the interview not as a hurdle to be passed with memorized stock answers from the internet, but as a discussion on how both parties will gain (sufficiently) when a contract is made - and thus sell their offer appropriately. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 1:33 | comment | added | fectin | Regardless of whether you can or want to keep OP, you may well want to make sure other's needs are being met. If everyone who leaves says "more pay", maybe you look at bumping up pay scales. If everyone says "onsite dry-cleaning" or "dubstep Tuesdays" or whatever, maybe you do that in the future. Point is, you want to know what the reasons are regardless of whether you're trying to make a counteroffer. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 14:38 | comment | added | Philipp | @simonc Everyone you poach from another company is a possible flight risk. If they are willing to switch to you to find greener pastures, they will potentially switch to someone else for even greener ones. The risk is smaller if you hire people who applied because they must find a job (unemployed people or people straight out of education) but it's still there. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 10:18 | comment | added | Steve | @simonc, the only hop that was ever too short for me, was 1 day (seriously, I was once offered a £5k pay bump on day 1 of already starting with another firm, and I declined). I can't understand why employers routinely think they can pay less than their own competitors - they just end up with third-rate staff with deep insecurities. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 9:00 | comment | added | nvoigt♦ | But at least it's the correct one. If the OP says "I want to be paid market rate" and I know down the road we won't, then maybe it's for the best that they don't start at that company. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 8:57 | comment | added | simonc | I agree with everything you wrote but its worth noting that the OP could still seem like a flight risk depending on the duration of their current job ("Only 2 years at that role and they're hopping job for a pay bump; should we assume they'll do the same in another year or two?") | |
| May 8, 2023 at 8:48 | history | answered | nvoigt♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |