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How to respond to "Why are you looking for a new job?"
During job interviews it seems common for the interviewer to ask something along the lines of "Why are you looking for a new job"? The last time I was asked this was during an interview where the ...
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Interview question: Why did you leave your previous role? [duplicate]
I am currently in the job market for a leadership role, and could use some advice on how to answer this question objectively.
My previous position was in many ways a dream job. The company was having ...
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What not to say regarding my motivation for finding a new job?
I've had a few job interviews recently and I seriously wonder what exactly should I say when they ask me about my motivation for looking for a new job.
I completely avoided talking about money except ...
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Should I still give two weeks' notice if I know my company won't honor a notice period?
In the US it's customary to give two weeks' notice when you resign and it would be considered very unprofessional to resign immediately, even if you're legally allowed to. At the same time, it's often ...
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What do I say about my previous job, which was horrible, in a new job interview? [duplicate]
Last year I worked as contractor for company C for one of their projects. Long story short: It was pure hell.
(The HR company that hired me informed me incorrectly about the job being Java ...
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How to explain in application that I am leaving due to my current employer starting to promote religion?
I worked for a Christian charity that has changed its policy in 2020, now moving from charity to mission. While I strongly supported the charity causes of said institution I do not see myself as a ...
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Is it unethical to say my current employer has financial problems when looking for another job? [duplicate]
I have been working for over a year for a company that I'm very happy with (apart from my salary):
The tasks I'm given are challenging but not overchallenging and I learn a lot at each task.
In the ...
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Should I be sincere - in an interview - about the reason for leaving my previous job?
I find myself in a situation similar to the man who wrote this post Lack of recognition in role and career development within role ,
that is to say I feel:
I'm doing much more work with respect to ...
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How do I explain leaving a short-tenure position at a disfunctional company and not look like a badmouth? [duplicate]
I am currently working for a small company that is not going to survive due to mismanagement. The director of the company is chaotic, verbally abusive, and generally pretty bad at making any sort of ...
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How to give a bad reference for a co-worker?
I'm in an interesting situation at work. I work with "Joe". Joe and I are both programmers, having both been professionally programming for about 20 years. Joe does some of the worst work I've seen ...
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How can I protect my own reputation while my name is attached to a bad company?
I'm on my way out of a long stretch working for a small company. While there, I designed most of their popular products. My name is on those products.
Unfortunately, that company has earned ...
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What can I do when employer changed the job description after I accepted?
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My background is in credit and risk management and I had one job since I graduated in 2018. I focus mostly on credit assessment, credit review, conducting postmortem credit review and also ...
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Was I wrong to be candid with a potential new hire about my reasons for leaving the company?
A little bit of backstory:
I quit my job 2 months ago and I am serving my notice period. I had some issues with the management because I did not accept their new exploitative "leadership" and they ...
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I left my job because the company was failing financially and not meeting payroll, vendors, etc- how do I explain that in an interview?
I was employed by the same company for 10+ years, was promoted and took on many duties. Over the course of the last few years, the company has been doing terribly financially, payroll bounced or we ...
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How to answer "why did you leave without a job to go to", when your manager was aggressive?
I have dug myself a hole here.
I left my work because basically my manager wouldn't show any developer without significant experience any respect what so ever. Our director was basically his chew ...
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