What would you do if your old job came to haunt you?
When you decide to start looking for a new job, stuff from your past that you might have preferred to forget tends to come back up. Whether it is how badly you performed at your last job, or your relationship with that one manager, these topics of conversation are very likely to come up at an interview for a new job, and you should prepare yourself for any question that would come up in the process.
After you’ve done a few interviews, you learn to polish the truth in a way that benefits you the most or puts you in a better light. You can say that your old job “wasn’t a good fit” instead of explaining that your manager kept overworking you, or you can say that you’re looking to “expand your skills” instead of saying that your current job got boring. There are plenty of professional ways to describe a situation that will make you seem like a good person to hire. All you need to do is learn how to best describe even the trickiest situations.
The only way a hiring manager or interviewer can call your bluff is if they have any way of contacting your other places of work and hearing the perspective of someone else, which is the case in the story below. This job candidate discovered during her interview that the person interviewing her is a good friend of her old boss, the same guy who fired her many years ago. So, while she can go on and on about how that job wasn’t a good fit, nothing is stopping the interviewer from calling up his good friend and hearing his side of the story. A side that can cost the job candidate the job that she really wants.
Is there any way for her to avoid this fate? The rest of the story below might shed some more light…
Author: Kayitsi.com
