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Tell them that the position you are in isn't challenging enough and you hope that this new position will actually have some job satisfaction by thinking about problem solving and by testing your limits....

EDIT: When it comes to this NEVER tell them the whole truth. I know you want to but bite your tounge. You wouldn't belive some of the stuff I've said at interviews and still got the job....

How about the "hit the glass ceiling" approach? "I've had a great experience, learned a lot, and gained many different skills at ABC Corp. It just became time for me to explore other options, and seek out a company that could provide me with greater potential for growth and more responsibilty. After careful consideration and research, I believe XYZ Corp. is that company for me. Something along those lines (but more polished obviously).

Try this on:

"That is a very good question. The opportunity at you company fits well into my overall career goals. I am comfortable in my exsisting position yet it doesn't provide the opportunity for advancement that this position offers. Your company and this position is a better fit for me for several reasons:
1) This companies management style is progressive
2) Your market position is strong
3) Contribute to the continuing success would be very rewarding

If I'm going to be spending 8 to 12 hours a day I am going to make sure it is worthwhule with a company I respect for a man/woman I admire and to actually make a difference. Its all about fit - what you are looking for is what I have to offer. It is time for me to step it up. My old company was good for me when I joined. It helped me establish a foundation. This company makes more sense allowing me to actually implement the tools I have developed at my old company.

Dont ever say anything like,. 'my boss was a jerk, or i didnt get along with my boss', etc. Remeber this is a potential boss thats hiring you, and will look at it like YOU were the problem, not the boss.

damn, lube. my next job interview, i want you on the other end of my earpiece. hell, will you be there when i ask the next chick out?

fo sho - I am the best wingman in da biz!

Just be like "the boss caught me nailing his wife with a 24" monster double-dong-dildo". They'll understand. They've all been there.


Note to self: Stop posting after 7+ beers.

Luby's got excellent job interview advice. He helped me out a great deal this past year and improved my interviewing skills probably 100%.

What he has to say on the subject is nearly gospel.

While I did not get the original job I was after using his advice I got much farther than I would have without it. In the end I did find a job and I really think his advice had a lot to do with it.

I was determined to land a particular job. Prior to the interview I read everything I could find about the company and I bought, read, and studied this book:
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I read every question, took notes, and formulated my answer for every one in the book. Then I studied my answers. When the interview started I had trouble not laughing as virtually every question that I was asked was right out of the book. I got more relaxed as the interview went on because I knew my preparation had paid off in a big way. Yep... I got the job.

A few years later I was on a business trip with the two guys who had interviewed me. They said by the end of the interview that they knew I was going to be the one hired... and I was the second person interviewed - and they interviewed people for three days. Prep pays off.

Absolutely. I was in the same situation. Market was poor in 2002, was laid off as a result of same, only one position in all of Chicago that was in my particular field, etc., etc. However, I took it a little further and made my mother ask the questions and "interview" me if you will.

I'm still there. Great job, great growth, great company. I'm lucky. Prep pays off.

FTR, to the OP, you can search much of this online too, along with suggestions on how to answer these questions. It may seem so lame, but from the other end, you are a complete stranger.....think about how you are going to convince them that this complete stranger out of a pool of complete strangers is the one for the job. Keep that in mind when preparing for this interview and how to best highlight your assets.

You don't want to tell the truth but you don't have to lie either. How about simply saying that although you enjoy where you are now, you are looking for a company that you will feel more comfortable about having a better long-term growth potential. (You don't have to tell them you'll go postal if you stay where you are).

Just like on this board, interviewers will each take what you have to say differently. For example, if Lube gave me those lines, I would conclude "super-shmoozer. . . FOS to get what he wants" (but that's just me .. others, obviously, would say "this is thee guy!" )

So, what I'm saying is, if you want to nail it, be your smartest self at the interview. Try to speak from a position of common goals. After all, you BOTH wan't to "fit" . . if reasonably possible.


. ..oh, Eric's (un polished) lines would have worked for me.

They don't call him the Lubemaster for nothing!

NEVER say anything negative about your old job... like Mama said "if you can't say anything nice"

As you said, you will come off sounding like a whiner and who want to hire a whiner.

Tell them "None of your damn business."

"They don't call him the Lubemaster for nothing!"

LOL

"NEVER say anything negative about your old job... like Mama said "if you can't say anything nice"

As you said, you will come off sounding like a whiner and who want to hire a whiner.

I don't agree. Sometimes, Like you get a guy (interviewee) from a competing firm/business . . . the interviewer may think low of that place to start with.

For example, if a guy working for Boeing says, "I really hate that red-tape meant that I spent a year designing a rivet, for the lav group, to secure a toilet to a nomex honeycome floor . . . i need a faster paced environment." --points in my book.

To me, any negative comments about a former employer make me suspect. Is it a personnel issue with this person? Is this person going to maybe "not get his way" over something, and is (s)he going to do the same this company? Employers are also looking for a good representative for the company.

To me, negative comments about a previous employer are marks againt the person.

Island, ya bra...

But he is making a lateral move in guberment...

Suck up baby!

Tell them "none of your damn business." Never present yourself as a whiney suck-up in a job interview. It is just like women who flirt in an interview and then are shocked that the boss expects to sleep with them after they start work. Don't sabotage yourself for later. If they hire you based on the whiney, suck-up act....that is what they want from an employee and will expect from you....If you bend over in the interview....expect to carry a jar of vaseline in your briefcase.

Good advice about not badmouthing your current boss. Could be a brother-in-law or best friend. There is sort of a network...particularly in govt work...where it will get back to your boss. If you don't get the new job...you are really screwed. The prospective employer will also have a mental image of you saying the same things about him later.

Wha-ha-hoe! I didn't know that!

Yeah, suck-Up³ :D

Actually, in that situation (generally) I think you just need to be as non-threatening to the interview as possible. But again, every interviewer is different. Fint is right, too; "If they hire you based on the whiney, suck-up act (or what ever)....that is what they want from an employee and will expect from you."

LOL fint. It's not "sucking up" (ok, Lubers was a bit suckup).

You have to make THIS stranger stand out from all the other strangers though.....and you have to point out your assets without sounding like you're bragging.....interviewing is most certainly an artform.

If a boss is going to hire a woman with the expectation they are going to sleep with the woman, then they get what they deserve! How stupid is that? Business is business and who wants to get laid over a dummy who can't perform the job duties?

And fint, the law industry in Chicago and even nationwide is the same way. They all talk and these firms that are halfway decent have offices in all the major cities, so word does get around..... A big catalyst of the communication network are the associations that we all belong to in which to share information and methodology/advancements in the particular area of industry, etc. (mine IT/Law related).

Hit on the boss in the interview...and don't be suprised if he thinks you are hot for him (men often think with parts that are located nowhere near their brain). Also don't be suprised that he is angry when he finds out that you are really not interested. That is not a good situation.

It is sort of like the man who asked a woman if she would sleep with him for $10 million. She said "yes". Then he pulled out $10 and asked her to sleep with him. She said.."what do you think I am???" he said, "We have already established that...now we are just dickering on price."

One should try to be themselves in an interview to a large extent...or else both will be unhappy later. You; trying to be the person you sold the boss on...the boss; unhappy that you are not the person he thought he was getting.

Be friendly and professional, but don't Eddie Haskell.

Hit on my female boss? LOL

Good point fint. You're right (about being yourself). Though I can't be any other way though LOL

My problem with me is I cannot lie, I suck at it, and I do have a hard time "bragging" about myself, if you will, and I am my own worst critic (believe it or not....this "malapert" girl...LOL)

So I have to really study hard to come up with the answers for these potential questions to shine myself in the best positive light. I just can't do that stuff on the fly.....

More technical or skilled positions are often the easiest (assuming you have the skills/knowledge) to staff or apply for because it is hard to schmooze your way through a good interview. To be simplistic, you can either type 40 words per minute or 120. Obviously customer service type positions may require more personality based skills. Management, sale, etc are tougher because personality is a large part of the job and what is good/effective is often subjective. For example....after I was hired in my current job...after seeing in me action...my boss proclaimed to a confidant..."I hired an *******.......exactly what I wanted). Of course now that I have crushed his opposition, destroyed his enemies, and fixed his problems for him...he is a bit weary of working with an "*******" and tends to surround himself with yesmen and push out. None are competent but they buy him lots of drinks. I don't really know where the line willl be drawn between his "needing me and my skills" to finding my advice intolerable because it is not exactly what he wants to hear. I image if I tell him one more time that he cannot do what he wants...because he will go to jail...after all his "buddies" have said, "great idea boss!"... that I will be looking for other employment...or he will be lookig for a new set of teeth...or both. Clearly if you are brought in as a "change agent"...once the changes are implemented and working...your value is diminished.

The trick is to turn the negatives into positives. In my interview I had a question that, if unprepared, could only have been answered negatively:

When it comes to work, what's your biggest fault?

My answer:
I have absolutely no patience for people who have a low work ethic.

An interview is like a date. If you are looking for a long term relationship, you need to be relatively honest. The truth always comes out.

My suggestion, I mean no disrespect, I swear.....but I would strongly discourage phrasing it: "no patience for people who......" What I just envisioned is a potential confrontational employee with his peers.

I'm the exact same way. I'm the worst liar around and even if you didn't know me you can tell when I'm lying. Also, I'm very confident in my abilities and my ability to learn new things, but I'm very uncomfortable saying it. I feel like I'm being boastful.

My answer:
Snorting lines and doing shots of tequila at lunch break.

930addict,
I know what you mean, I was looking for a way out of my (government) job but then someone screwed up and promoted a honest hardworking supervisor over me and now I'm happy as a pig in... well you know.

:rolleyes:

A job, a sale, a date...its all the same. You have to get in between their ears. Figuer out what makes them tick but do so with the guy/girl who has the juice. On the surface, people buy on performance, people hire on performance and people date performance. When it comes right down to it it really is about if you are liked - well liked.

Few will admit that but is the truth 99.978%. You can have a list of issues and not the best logical choice but if the juice likes you you have it. If they like you alot, they will go to bat for you in a number of ways.

That trick is to find out how to be liked - well liked. Figuer that out and the world becomes a play ground...

Objectivity gets hired, subjectivity keeps your job.

Also, self confidence is a good thing - it's not bragging if peformance is the subject. You MUST have the confidence to state your abilities and accomplishments. Take pride in your work ethic.

During the interview, when the subject comes up on why you are seeking employment, make sure it's about challenge and growth potential (AS MENTIONED ABOVE). Ask about what the job entails, ask questions about the growth and direction of the company, where you can go, study the company you're interviewing with, THEN ask about compensation.

Be interested in your new employer, as it's an improvement over your prior job.

The interviewer is selling the company to you, and you're selliing yourself to the interviewer. Make sure they put a bit of effort into selling their employment to you, then you know you have done a decent job of selling yourself.

Finally, actually ask for the job.

rjp