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Re: "Why do you want to leave your job?"
« on: February 14, 2020, 04:20:17 pm »
that sounds good.

My biggest point was to not spend much "airtime" on talking about that organization and its structure, and make YOU the subject of the sentence.

"I'd like to broaden my experience (or hone my focus on the more valuable parts of my job in preparation to greater responsibility)."

Also, you can actually say things like "somewhere with more administrative support" or "a firm with a more strategic focus."
That implies a criticism of the old place ("ah, she gets stuck doing admin work and doesn't want to") without actually saying it. It's an acceptable way to frame it.

I say this w/ lots of etiquette stuff: Don't talk about what you want to get away from (you already know "dumpster fire" stuff, but also don't talk about the overstaffing), and focus on where you want to go TO. What you DO want. "I want more time to expand on the core skills" or "I want to be part of a strategic team."


Also, it's been 5 years, and at only one firm, so someone who is ambitious will of course be ready to move to a different organization, if only for cross-pollination reasons ("I'd like to be exposed to a differently organized firm/firm of a different size"), and also because often to get a big jump, you need to move out. I know this is a lateral move, but you can talk about "the right time to make a move and expand my knowledge of the industry."
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