If you are leaving one company to go to another company to do the exact same thing you are doing now, should you “fluff” your answer or tell the truth?
Most people are looking for better pay or better work environment, which I assume recruiters or hiring managers will know that. If you are making below the market and you know the company you are interviewing at pays the market price, will it hurt to just tell them you are seeking a fair compensation as one of the reasons you are leaving?
These days I see more articles popping up that hiring managers are seeing through all the BS/Fluff, and using different methods to guage your skill and personality.
Well, of course, you can add that you’re not sure you ARE leaving your current job, but that one lives in a world where employers often try to undervalue their employees, it it is part of every professional’s responsibility to make sure that they are being properly valued and where better opportunities might be.
Just because I interview with a company doesn’t mean that I’ve decided to leave my current job. If I’m good at what I do, the company has to offer me something I like in order to get me to switch. From there, you can talk about what are the things that you would like to see improved over your current position and have a discussion about whether the company you’re interviewing with is in a position to offer that.
you are like the yoda of reason… hard to believe there is someone with more AF Points than S2000 since he’s always helping people on Level 1 - 3 forums
S2000 is catching up. I’ve been here longer than S2000. I used to help out the way he did, but 1) I’m not sure the current exam has the same quirks in the material as the exam I took, and 2) after a while, I got too lazy to answer the same questions over and over.
I probably need to get out and look at other opportunities more, though my current gig has some nice work-life balance features that are attractive to me as an old fogie.
If I were asked this question by a recruiter or an interviewer today, I’d mention that the company I work for has been dragging its feet on some oral agreements we had about compensation and responsibilities and - after having been patient for a while - I think it’s time that I look around and see if there are other things that interest me and where I can add value that would meet or exceed those expectations.
Oral agreements at the time of hiring are, of course, worth little more than the air consumed while speaking them, but at the same time, when they aren’t honored, I think that’s a sign that one is free to look around at other stuff without worrying too much about whether this makes you a disloyal employee.
At one company where I worked, I was told one year that I’d have been made a vice president, but there were only so many slots available. But I was promised a vice-presidency the next year.
The next year, I was told, “Oh, no: I said that ‘maybe’ you would become a vice president.”
The next year, I had left.
I cannot work for liars, nor for people who do not appreciate my value.
I am with you on this. I just can’t quit yet until I find another job. My bonus was medicore (more like a slap in the face) and management hinted at a promotion. Several months passed by and the situation has not changed. Meanwhile, people are exiting the firm like flies for other opportunities and management is scrambling to keep people including myself. Even if they do bump up my pay, I am still leaving. I cannot work for a company that only sees value when they see people leaving.
When I was applying for new jobs, I always said, “I like working at my current firm, and Iwant to become a partner at a CPA firm someday. I’m just not sure I want to be a partner at THAT firm.” (Remember too–I live in a small city, and everybody knew the firm I was working for, and probably knew why I didn’t want to stay there.)
