Interview Question: “Why Did You Leave Your Last Job?”
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So why did you leave your last job? That's a tricky question. I can almost guarantee that in your next interview this question would come up. Now unless you've never worked a day in your life and this is kind of your first job, then if that's the case I would suggest you watch my other videos on interview
challenges, right? But in this case if you worked for somebody, right? And then now you're applying for your next position. Now keep in mind there are only a few scenarios and I'm going to give you some scripts and words that you could say and how to handle this these different objections. So why did you
leave your last job? Let's say you take a first example that you actually left the last job. You didn't get fired, you left the job. What you don't want to do is never ever put down your ex-boss or your ex-company because the minute you do that first of all it feels that you
are kind of holding grudges or that you're badmouthing somebody else as an employer like, "Oh, if you leave this job, is that what you're going to do to me?" So don't do that. And don't share stuff that gets very personal and emotional where "Oh, I don't feel like I'm being valued. I don't feel like I'm
getting paid enough." That's not how you bring it up either, right? Because again as an employer I would worry if you come to the company is that what you're going to be thinking, right? Am I bringing in a bad apple? So let's say you walk out of that environment and you you quit
that business. So here's something that you could say. So "Why did you leave your last job?" And you could say, "Well, I enjoyed the the three years that I worked in ABC company and we actually took the company from X to Y, right? And during that time I've learned a lot and then and I met some amazing
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