Why are you leaving – Why are you leaving your job – Why do you want to leave your job

Don,

I purchased your guide because I want to leave my current job despite
the considerable success that I have had in it. Same industry for 25
years with stellar track record. I have a boss that is unbearable and
may wish to resign prior to having another job. What would my answers
be when asked the question, “why do you want to leave your current job”
and “why did you leave your last job?”

Thank you!

Suzanne

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Hi Suzanne,

Glad to hear everything is okay. As far as your questions go, I like to
take the high road and would never tell anyone I’m leaving my job
because I dislike my boss.

You can find more answers to these questions in the guide, but here is
the approach I like to take:

I usually only have two reasons for ever leaving a job: either I was
laid off due to economic reasons or the job failed to challenge me
anymore. You can also say that corporate restructuring put you and
your job out in left field and you didn’t feel apart of the company
anymore.

Why are you leaving? I do tell them, though I enjoy my current job, the
company and my co-workers, I feel that it is in my best interest to take
my career to the next level and move into a more challenging position
or role. What ever you say, tell them it is because you want more
challenges and responsibility, something that your current job no
longer offers. You can tell them you have outgrown your current
position….

I hope this helps and let me know if there is anything else I can do to
help.

Sincerely,

Don

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Thank you. While all of that is so (go to the next level but I don’t
want my boss’ job) , my boss seems to want me out, to the extent that he

is making it difficult for me to stay. This whole thing is new to me
because I have never been on the “hot seat” before and it is affecting
my performance. Basically, things were great until I became injured on
the job (at a sales meeting during an activity) and the company had me
file a worker’s comp claim a year after the fact. (broken leg, and
reactivating a back injury.) Yet despite the rehab, I still had very
high sales numbers with stellar year over year growth. It is as if they
are trying to railroad me out, but I want to be positive as I interview
elsewhere. But I may be forced to resign.

Thanks,

Suzanne

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Suzanne,

This is easy for me to say, but have you considered confronting your
boss or better yet, going over his head?

Good sales people are hard to come by, and if you are a profitable asset
to the company, I can’t see why they would want to get rid of you, other
than spite or personal dislike. And if your manager is allowing his
personal feelings towards you to get in the way of what’s best for the
company, then in my opinion, he’s a very poor manager.

No matter how bad things look, going over your managers head is usually
a bad idea unless you have first tried to resolve things with your boss.

Is there something for them to gain by getting you out of the way? Will
they get your customers?

If it were me, I would prefer to stick it out and be the better person
and try to resolve any conflicts with my manager. Maybe even try to
make it difficult for my manager. What have you got to lose? What ever
you do, think it out clearly and talk it over with someone else to make
sure it’s a good sound plan.

Don

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