Explaining a resignation to a future employer is possible...
20 March 2012
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But yes, it is quite possible to discuss your resignation during a job interview! You just need to follow a few basic common sense rules...
1. Don't lie
Explaining a resignation to a future employer is certainly not easy. And it can give a rather ambiguous self-image: a daredevil... However, professionals in recruitment unanimously advise betting on honesty. Indeed, there is no point in hiding what is so easy to verify through references. It is better to say things simply, clearly and constructively. Resigning is not cowardly leaving a former position, it is starting a repositioning process.
2. Explain the reasons
Of course, it is never very pleasant to have to justify oneself. However, here, the surest technique to reassure your interlocutor remains this one. Explaining the reasons for your departure in a positive way, highlighting the constructive choices you are making for your career cannot hurt. On the contrary. The recruiter will think that this need for change means a spirit eager for new challenges, an active and efficient person, who wants to evolve and is not content with mastering their position.
3. Don't go into detail
If it is true that you left your previous position due to disagreements with your former boss, it is preferable not to dwell on this point. Be brief and only mention this part if you have been expressly asked to do so. It is not necessary to let your recruiter assume that you may have some relational difficulties, some difficulties adapting to company life, integrating into a team, etc... Furthermore, if you have already resigned several times, it is better not to mention it either, so as not to give the image of someone who is somewhat unstable, inconsistent, or even unable to question themselves professionally.
4. Never criticize.
No matter what reasons led you to resign and your right, if any, in a professional dispute, remember that you have everything to lose by verbally attacking your former employer or your previous company, even if they are fierce competitors. Do not let yourself be trapped either by your future recruiter's attempts to make you speak ill of the former. Stay out of the emotional field and elevate the conclusions by stating that any experience, whatever it may be, is welcome and that there is never total responsibility. At work, as in life, everything is shared, even mistakes!
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
Posted online on March 20, 2012.
1. Don't lie
Explaining a resignation to a future employer is certainly not easy. And it can give a rather ambiguous self-image: a daredevil... However, professionals in recruitment unanimously advise betting on honesty. Indeed, there is no point in hiding what is so easy to verify through references. It is better to say things simply, clearly and constructively. Resigning is not cowardly leaving a former position, it is starting a repositioning process.
2. Explain the reasons
Of course, it is never very pleasant to have to justify oneself. However, here, the surest technique to reassure your interlocutor remains this one. Explaining the reasons for your departure in a positive way, highlighting the constructive choices you are making for your career cannot hurt. On the contrary. The recruiter will think that this need for change means a spirit eager for new challenges, an active and efficient person, who wants to evolve and is not content with mastering their position.
3. Don't go into detail
If it is true that you left your previous position due to disagreements with your former boss, it is preferable not to dwell on this point. Be brief and only mention this part if you have been expressly asked to do so. It is not necessary to let your recruiter assume that you may have some relational difficulties, some difficulties adapting to company life, integrating into a team, etc... Furthermore, if you have already resigned several times, it is better not to mention it either, so as not to give the image of someone who is somewhat unstable, inconsistent, or even unable to question themselves professionally.
4. Never criticize.
No matter what reasons led you to resign and your right, if any, in a professional dispute, remember that you have everything to lose by verbally attacking your former employer or your previous company, even if they are fierce competitors. Do not let yourself be trapped either by your future recruiter's attempts to make you speak ill of the former. Stay out of the emotional field and elevate the conclusions by stating that any experience, whatever it may be, is welcome and that there is never total responsibility. At work, as in life, everything is shared, even mistakes!
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
Posted online on March 20, 2012.
