“Why Do You Want to Come Back?” How To Handle Another Tough Interview Question

It sometimes happens that you make a move, regret it and look back fondly at a company you were with, sometimes years ago. When you re-apply to a past employer, you can expect to be asked about your motivation for wanting to return.

Tricky question, you can’t complain about a current or recent employer, neither do you want to be seen as lacking judgment. The best advice is to talk about the people factor, as well as the work in your response.

“Why Have You Been Out of Work For so Long?” How To Handle Another Tough Interview Question

This question always has you scrambling for an answer, it touches a raw spot and can be humiliating, but you can turn it around by facing and using the facts of the matter.

The facts are that you are a hardworking, competent professional who had always been led to believe that was enough. You’d never had a problem finding work before and no one had ever told you there were specific job search skills you needed to develop, not at home, school or college or anywhere.

Then you got sideswiped by the biggest recession in eighty years and on top of this, the sudden move to Internet-based recruitment (while you were working and not paying attention to such things) had changed all the rules of job search anyway.