Question - Why are you leaving (or did you leave) this position ?
Answer -
(If you have a job presently tell the hr)
If you’re not yet 100% committed to leaving your present post, don’t be afraid to say so. Since you have a job, you are in a
stronger position than someone who does not. But don’t be coy either. State honestly what you’d be hoping to find in a new
spot. Of course, as stated often before, you answer will all the stronger if you have already uncovered what this position is
all about and you match your desires to it.
(If you do not presently have a job tell the hr.)
Never lie about having been fired. It’s unethical – and too easily checked. But do try to deflect the reason from you
personally. If your firing was the result of a takeover, merger, division wide layoff, etc., so much the better.
But you should also do something totally unnatural that will demonstrate consummate professionalism. Even if it hurts ,
describe your own firing – candidly, succinctly and without a trace of bitterness – from the company’s point-of-view,
indicating that you could understand why it happened and you might have made the same decision yourself.
Your stature will rise immensely and, most important of all, you will show you are healed from the wounds inflicted by the
firing. You will enhance your image as first-class management material and stand head and shoulders above the legions of
firing victims who, at the slightest provocation, zip open their shirts to expose their battle scars and decry the unfairness
of it all.
For all prior positions:
Make sure you’ve prepared a brief reason for leaving. Best reasons: more money, opportunity, responsibility or growth.
he "Silent Treatment"
Like a primitive tribal mask, the Silent Treatment loses all it power to frighten you once you refuse to be intimidated. If
your interviewer pulls it, keep quiet yourself for a while and then ask, with sincere politeness and not a trace of sarcasm,
“Is there anything else I can fill in on that point?” That’s all there is to it.
Whatever you do, don’t let the Silent Treatment intimidate you into talking a blue streak, because you could easily talk
yourself out of the position.