What do you do?
If you’ve had abbreviated tenure at in your last several roles, you may be asked ๐this tricky job interview question in an interview:
๐๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ค ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ?
Smile. ๐
It’s your lucky day! ๐
Because this tricky job interview question is a golden opportunity! ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
It’s a good question to be asked.
๐It really is.
The purpose is to get a better idea of your working skills and how you might apply those to ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ position.
The interviewer likely isnโt insinuating anything with this question because, frankly, most employers donโt actually care why you left other jobs.
Because theyโre not interviewing you for a job you ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ to have.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐’๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ the job you want. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ท๐ผ๐ฏ.
๐ฐ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ – ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
Anytime you get asked to โwalk me throughโ your last jobs, focus on ONE thing and ONE thing only – what you did/produced/learned/valued most at X job ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ Y position you’re interviewing for.
๐Again – they’re interviewing you for their role, not for one you left.
Anything they ask is designed to get information relevant to ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ role and how you will bring value to it.
And, don’t worry about being tagged a job hopper.๐ธ
There was a time when that was a bad thing.
I call them โthe before timesโ or, simply, โthe olden daysโ.
Average employment tenure now hovers somewhere between 2-4 years, depending on age, industry and other factors.
And, honestly, most employers don’t care about that.
The ones that do clearly value some sort of undeserved and unreciprocated loyalty more than the tangible value the employee brings to the role.
So donโt sweat this tricky job interview question.
Itโs just a fact-gathering tool.
Focus on what you did/produced/learned/valued most and that provided a pathway to give value back to the organization – and talk about how you can leverage ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด for the benefit of your new (๐คfingers crossed for you) employer.
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๐I’m Gretchen
๐I am a career and personal development strategist on a mission to teach you to find what you love without losing yourself in the process.
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