Why Did you Leave your Last Job? | Best Answer (from former CEO)
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2020
- Job Interview Tips from a former CEO. Examples, principles, and tips.
This is one of the standard questions in a job interview, yet most candidates forget to prepare for it. This is the 12th video in my series on Getting Hired. I will be exploring all the common job interview questions, including how to answer why and how did you leave your last job. Please see the other videos in my "Get Hired" playlist for more tips.
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"Why Did you Leave your Last Job?" Best Answer.
Welcome to another educational HR video on how to pass a job interview. Sometimes we leave a job. Sometimes we are laid off. Sometimes we are fired. How should we explain to an interviewer (whether they are a recruiter or hiring manager), and how MUCH should we explain. Well, it depends on whether it is a first-round interview or a later-round interview. What we say also depends on whether we were laid off, left/resigned, or were fired. I give broad guidelines and example answers in all of these situations, as well as several principles that are at play. Knowing these can help to frame your answer.
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sir how to handle questions about demotion? is it ok to put in resume about it??
Thanks!
What if I did not leave my job and looking for a new one, what would I say?
@The Companies Expert Hello, can you do a vid about how to explain gaps in your resume please?
Thank you in advance.
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No, they didn't fire me, sir, they promoted me to customer.
😂😂😂
and you have to pay them now ... looool
Then they would probably hire you because you have a positive mindset ;)
@@fabiopieretti9884 hahaha hopefully.
😂😂😂
"We always tell the truth but we don't always disclose everything"
Wisdom
😂
I hated all my jobs and i only loved them in my interviews
Same lol.
Very true lol
😪 sad to hear cause im about to get one 😂🤝
@@sandeepafernando9749 my advice to you is to stay strong and just try your best not to take anything personal and just kill your feelings.
@@hanighazzal6834 thank you 💙
Hope my boss doesn't catch me watching these videos at work while planning my get away to a better job lol
I'm litterally in the same position right now !
However I already talked about it with my manager, and he's actually wishing me the best outcome possible :)
But to be honnest these videos are really helpfull !
where headphones
I’m with ya 😂
If you're serious about the question 1) do not use company equipment to view these videos. Your IT department probably knows everything that happens on company equipment. If you don't want to run the risk of being found out, don't risk using their network. 2) As long as you're following the first point, be aware of where you view these videos on your own equipment. Many companies have ways to monitor you even in their break rooms. Be aware of this, and act accordingly.
I don't say this to scare you, just to inform. I know from past experience management can and sometimes does watch for this type of thing, so just be careful.
@@ronsimon8675 IT department knows frickin everything. Those guys have ALL the data about who's using the computers for what and when.
you seem to be the 1st channel with tipps who really tells them (and that in 5 minures !) and doesnt make 30 minutes of hot fuzz videos to generate income and say nothing. Superb and valuable !
exactly! when i find those 5 minute video expanded to 30 min. i straight up block that entire channel. because people dont change
Very interesting.I see how i messed up. Thank you again
My pleasure!
Who feels me on this... "If I ONLY knew the answers to these questions earlier in my professional career!" Thank you very much for this valuable insight, especially during these economic challenges for folks. Knowledge is Power! I appreciate you.
Thanks, Donte! That's awesome of you to say
So job interviews are like dating...🤔
Worse! Your whole future depends on the outcome! Come to think of it...Dating is worse!
Basically
@Antero story of my life tbh
@@thepsychicspoon5984 arranged marriages make a lot more sense now
Without food and drinks...
Here's my favorite answer that I ever gave to this question. I was currently employed, so they asked why I'd want to leave my current employer to work for them instead. My answer:
"Actually, I was kinda hoping you'd give me a reason to do that", with a chuckle.
I then followed up with I'd like to grow and learn new things.
Yep, I got the job. It had become clear that I had the job by the time they asked that question, though they hadn't actually made an offer. So at that point we were basically setting up for a salary negotiation.
They did end up giving me a reason to leave my current job - doubling my take-home pay.
Mine was easy. Previous employer was preparing to retire and close the business. I had to take advantage of the opportunity to create a future for myself elsewhere.
I'm here not only for the advices. You are a person who expresses himself in an understandable, simple and direct way. I'm here to learn about English too in some way :)
So glad i found these videos, as someone who is looking to move up but always messes up the interview these will be a huge help, thank you
I like that you actually answer the questions you pose. thank you so much! I'm going through interviews right now.
Thank You so much for your sound advice! I’ve been wondering how to be honest but not get eliminated from a potential interview, you deserved much more subscribers however you just gained another subscriber!
The last 90 seconds, wow! Love how to talk about your termination and refocusing on the role in it’s original form. That is brilliant. Speaking as someone that is a middle manager and has had that happen!
I’ve been on both sides of the table quite often these past 7 years and I agree with this gentleman. Very sound advice in all his videos I’ve watched on interviews. I highly encourage everyone to take a look, listen and learn.
Thanks, Wees!
Wow, I've just recently found this channel, and what a gem it is. I really appreciate a piece of advice that's concise and to the point and these 5 min videos work best for me.
You're so awesome!THANK YOU for keeping your presentations easy to understand and filled with lots of "AHA" moments!
It's tough not to say that my prior job was toxic, owner/boss would curse everyone out daily, scream and degrade.
Yeah or alternatively that the place was extremely unsafe, management would sweep things under the rug, lie, place blame on others for issues, and were fired for being a whistleblower basically. What I ended up doing was not including that job on my resume and it never really came up in interviews. But I still listed it on the background check/employment check once I had the job offer so I had CYA in case it ever came up somehow in the future (industry is small). Figured I’d answer to it if they asked why I didn’t include it on my resume or discuss in interviews. They never even asked about it and current job is great.
Not sure if it is a good idea (someone more experienced can comment) but I probably would say something like "The company culture was something I was not ok with. I'm glad to see/have heard/find out that your culture is more in line with mine. I specially like your --- add one of their core values here --- "
@@mustoneh great suggestion, thank you
@@mustoneh thanks.
Right? What about saying something like “Although I enjoyed the job and worked hard we didn’t have the same morals.”
I love the answer you gave for when you are fired. I will take this advice if it ever becomes applicable to me. Thanks for keeping the video short and to the point!
Not sure what the algorithm did to bring me here , but you cover a lot of interesting points in a short space of time. No BS. Well done
Many excellent points and great advise in a 5 minute video. This is gold!
RUclips works wonders. I was just thinking of changing companies, then this video suddenly appeared as a recommendation. Now on to watch the rest of your videos.
You're so right! I don't get tired of writing the same thing on all of your videos!!!
2nd lockdown in London, UK led me here but this was a great Christmas present. I've been binge-watching your videos. I think you deliver great value to your audience. I currently do not need to look for a job but if my friends do need help, I'll certainly recommend your channel!
Thanks, Dean! You are definitely awesome!
I love my job. I have no plans to leave it. I just think these videos are fascinating. I enjoy getting a glimpse 'behind the curtain'. Good stuff.
As someone who's turning 20 the coming week, and is looking into entering my industry of choice in the next couple years, I would like to thank you for demonstrating how to better present oneself.
:)
GREAT tips! Thank you for sharing these valuable insights!
These are tips are so accurate and priceless. You are so great. Thank You!
So hr interview questions are designed to gauge if you would be a good little drone
That's part of the job - deciding if you can in fact, fill the requirements written by the hiring person. Yes or no to check the list. The "how" is for someone else in investigate.
Only if they are looking for a drone. Many jobs would be a horrible fit for a drone.
Nothing to discard. Worth watching every bit of info.. while diving right into the topic..thanks.. keep it up..more subscribers and growth of your channel 💪✌👊👏
You are awesome and your right dont ask dont tell but dont lie either so be honest and go on your talent and good work ethics...thank u Bill
Perfect and motivated answers, opportunity to prepare for it better. Thanks a lot.
Thank you Bill. I see when I was messed up!
This was really good advice. Wish I had that when I interviewed a couple of years ago from when I left a job because of having to train management that ranked over me, that turned over every few months, the basic customer service skills for the industry they were hired for. Thankfully that was as abhorrent to my hiring managers as I thought it was.
The thing is, I suck on interviews but I do great on the actual job. So, yep. 🤷🏻♂️
@@em0_tion Exactly.
Me 2
ditto
Same
Me too
Never say you were fired.
I was fired from a company that was subject to a dateline special on corruption. Great story in an interview about integrity so don't say never.
“I was promoted to customer position”
What would be a good answer if I’ve been fired?
@@pinnacle6322 I was fired as a scapegoat for thr HR manager and I'd do it again.
Very good advices!! Thanks!!
Thank you for Your Professional Job !!!
Your video is very good. Good content and pointers. Thanks for sharing
I appreciate you sir for posting this I have a job interview later on today I left my previous employment it didn't meet my personal and professional growth in wanting to do more my personality was better suited as a nurse so the opportunity I am interviewing for the company will help me get through medical school to become a nurse
Dude you are awesome. Great video.
may GOD bless you sir i was looking for this answer
Sr. fantastic video, on my books You do deserve a 2 million subscribers
thank you for the info it really helps
No man, you are AWESOME!
Really enjoy these videos
awesome and smart boss,thanks
Bless this man
Hi I thought I would just write to advise that after 2 interviews I GOT THE JOB. Yes you helped me loads. After finding and subscribing I took lots of your advice and a HUGE thank you for these videos. I will be coming back soon to see if there are any other posts that I can take hints and tips from.
Thank you again Companies Expert - Good job - YOU are awesome !!! 😁 🌻💐👌
Congratulations, Susan! You are in demand!!
I used the lack of growth and development reasoning actually to explain to my current employer why I quit:) and it was true. I like this one a lot. Very innosent yet very promising.:)
I like ya style Bill. I have one end of interview super nugget I used for decades (retired now) Let me know if you'd like to consider adding it into one of your fab vids
And thank you 🙏 for sharing this amazing 😉
Info
Solid advice 👍
I am back in the job market and have been binging on your videos. This was a great video with alot of great info. Luckily I loved my last job, is that okay to say?
Good advice!
I love your videos!!
Helpful info. Thank you.
Thanks, Anni!
Luckily telling them in my upcoming interview why I left my previous job won't require badmouthing or hiding anything even if I wanted to. There were simply unseen hurdles associated with my position that hadn't been thought through before offering me the job as a remote worker. I want to see the CEO's vision come to fruition whether I am there or not. He's a great dude regardless.
thank you for sharing ..
You deserve a million suscriber. Thumbs up with your great passion to help people like me. Thank you very much😇
Thanks, Nina! Awesome of you to say!
Thank you! 🙏
Great advice
I had a job interviewer ask me one time, why my previous "job" only lasted for a short time, as if "why couldn't I hang on to those jobs". To my dismay, the interviewer was totally unaware of how "contract jobs" worked, ... and I had spent quite a bit of time on IT contract jobs arounds the country, that generally have a specific amount of time that they need you. And as far as "why did you leave your last job?", ... I had to state, "IT WAS A CONTRACT JOB" (you silly 'uninformed' person). Obviously, this person was totally unaware of "contract jobs", and their contractual time periods.
Ugh YES. So many IT jobs are 3-9 month contracts and that's it. It's not that I can't hold on to a job you dummy!
I think it would help them understand better by describing contract jobs as "project-based" where the nature of employment is to end when the assigned project finishes.
Thank you for your very informative videos.
What if the main reason for leaving a job has something to do with work life balance issues such as mandatory long hours of working which causes some of us to get sick or burnt out? Is it ok to tell it to the interviewer?
This is true even at the low tier entry level jobs.
For a time I used to work as a cook at a Chipotle. I got a job at a chain in my state named Bibibop (which is pretty much exactly like Chipotle for people that don't know). I wound up quitting the Bibibop job to take a counter offer from my old manager at Chipotle.
Fast forward a few years later, I'm out of Chipotle and I'm being interviewed for another job at Bibibop, this time at a different location. I decided to be honest and said some things about my former Chipotle boss that were better left unsaid. Sure enough, I did not get that job haha. It was a great learning experience.
Great tips
Thanks for your wonderful videos. I love them. You have a very beautiful voice. My question is when I get rejected in an interview or online application, what would be the best way to ask the reason they did not want to hire me? I would love to know the real answer, so I do not make the same mistake again. I have never heard an honest answer. Probably, I am not asking it the right way
Well, my next interview will be after finishing collage for mechanical engineering. My reason for leaving my previous is simply that I was working at a car wash and isn’t the career path I wanted, just a job to be able to pay for my expenses while in school.
Your channel is great
You are awesome 👌
Agreed fully. You, Sir, are well informed!
You too are awsome Bill
This was the first question I was asked this morning during my first telephone interview with a company recruiter. She asked why I wanted to leave a very well known and established company (this company has over 150,000 employees worldwide and it's a software giant). I told her that I have been working my butt off for the last 4 years and I there is no sign of a promotion or a pay raise. I also added, it was not just me. It's the same case for all the people in my team and department. Not sure I will be asked for a second round interview :).
Did they get back to you?
Is it okay to say that I am trying to get away from shift work if the new opportunity is a 9-5 type job? Thanks for all of the helpful info!
I love your videos - I retired from my last job (age 65) but I realise I have skills that are still needed. So how about a video on this ? How to get back to work when spending time at home and feel the need to go out into the work place again ??
I lost a job, I wish I came to know this channel before that interview.
Fun fact, if you were fired, and when asked you instead say "I left the company" or "We parted ways", you didn't technically lie!
Good tips👍
This video really helped me understand where I went wrong in an otherwise strong representation of myself and what I have to offer. I just found your channel today and I appreciate the wealth of knowledge you share. If you don't mind, I do have a question. I left my store manager position with a retail pharmacy because I was asked to have covid positive employees continue working and I honestly could not support a business that would make such decisions. How would you suggest I answer this question as I prepare for upcoming interviews? Thank you.
I would say that you had a difference in opinion about how certain procedures should be praticed and implemented.
I am writing to say thankyou. There is a big job interview tomorrow and I was looking for an advice. I am happy that Ive found your channel.
Best of luck, Rodolfo! I hope it went well
How did it go!?
@@JS-ez2tw , thanks for asking.
Actually it went very well. In general, I consider myself a good engineer but I am very bad at jobs interviews; thats why the information Ive found here had a good impact in my overall performance.
The reason why I have a bad history in job interviews is because is very difficult for me to understand why one person who doesnt knowme start asking a lot of deep and personal questions trying to get into important conclusions within 45 minutes of conversation. Now I know it is something you dont have to understand but play. Is like a chess match. You have to study it and get to know the tactics.
Thank you
So if the company failed to provide any support to you and were in fact telling you and the client different stories, resulting in you having a mental breakdown, and thus resigning from the position.
How do you tell the truth on that without saying that your previous employer failed to support you? (That would count as speaking negatively about someone right)
Your advice is outstanding!!!
Please do a video about how to explain getting fired to a potential employer.
I was fired from my job in July 2020 because a comment I made on my personal Facebook account was screenshotted by somebody who disagreed with me and sent to my employer. They also disagreed with me, and they fired me. I was in good standing with the company. I was a lead, I had no write ups, perfect attendance, and was even in the running for a promotion. I had been there for many years. Now, nearly 7 months later I am struggling to find a job because as soon as I explain what happened, I basically get shooed away. I don’t want to be a burden to society anymore. I want to get back to work. Help
Truly dangerous question..i fall in some interview coz of this...regardless of my proven skills... It is as if they re focusing on it and disregard other stuff...its upsetting sometimes...
love the information but the drums in the background are very distracting
Thanks for watching, TKL!
Nooo I like it
I watch these on 2x so its just a mess for me 😂
@@kevinstull7032 😂😂😂
What about special cases like you have family in the current area of the position you are applying for and you left your past job to be with your family which was a far distance? Is this a great answer to tell interviewers?
They promoted me, but kept me with the same salary until "the company situation was stable". After 3 months of excuses I got tired and flipped them off.
I should have done it earlier
Very good stuff....
Thanks, Earl!
What if you were there before the new owner came in and they let me go after less than a year later?
What if you are changing career's altogether. Like I was a truck driver and am currently a bus driver. But I recently graduated college with a degree in medical assisting. How do I answer questions and relate experiences
what's the positive spin on "i was fired because i was sick and my performance levels dropped significantly afterwards." ?
Please give tips for Leadership interviews such as interview for manager or director
Hey If a person left his job to go back to college and study further what should his answer be? And thanks for the video.
So basically you are saying your previous boss can bad mouth you, in a reference letter or when they call him/her, but you have to lie that everything was great in the company. This is very sad. So basically the interview is for you to lie your way into getting the job, instead of letting them know all about you so that if they cannot afford those qualities, they just let you go. Basically, you are saying we should fit in.
Yep
Exactly. I left my last job because I worked with a bunch of lazy sods. People were off constantly on the sick. The bosses were horrible to work for. So am I supposed to lie through my teeth to get another another job. At the end of the day most people leave there job for more money or your un happy working there
What if I want to move because I want to be promoted to higher management? If I said I am moving for growth, wouldnt it end up in them thinking I might eventually leave again?
Oh this is why I didn't got that last job before I should have come here 1 year ago when I was applying a milk tea shop job
“I haven’t yet”
I’m currently looking for another job and that question might come up tomorrow XD
“I’d like to start my days again with seeing children smile”