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300 Answers to the toughest interview questions
By: Martin Yate CPC
Question # 126
Posted Friday August 10, 2012
Q) Why did you leave _______ ?
This is a checkbox question - ask the question, check the box, and move on. You can get into trouble with TMI. Any answer longer than fifteen words is too long. If the interviewer wants more, s/he will ask.
This is a checkbox question - ask the question, check the box, and move on. You can get into trouble with TMI. Any answer longer than fifteen words is too long. If the interviewer wants more, s/he will ask.
Acceptable reasons: job not as described; company in financial difficulties; downsized; declined to relocate; too many changes-management, pay plans, direction; underpaid; incentives eliminated; limited or no growth. Acceptable reasons for a salesperson: quota raised; territory shrunk/changed; accounts taken away; commission changed; unpaid commissions; product doesn't work/overpriced/noncompetitive.
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I work in an executive recruitment in Melbourne and I usually do the interview to interested applicants. I noticed that this question usually stunned and surprise them. I mostly encounter babbling and stammering applicants when thrown this question.
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