Tactful Interviewing
October 29th, 2008. Published under Career Hunting. No Comments.
If you were fired, don’t let this event mar your search for new opportunities. At your next interview, you will be asked why you left your previous job. Be honest. If you try to sugar-coat your experience, your potential employers will pick up on your lies. Instead, be prepared to tell your interviewer what you have learned from the experience.
If you had problems with your coworkers, emphasize the idea that the group could not work together any more. Talk about how your approach to group work has changed. If you were slacking off in your old job because the work was not challenging enough, tell the interviewer how you plan to be more proactive in asking for assignments. You must understand how to fix the problems of your past.
The key to this situation is to become a better person as a result of your last job. A firing is a sign that you need to change some aspect of your behavior. Once you have made the necessary corrections, you will be able to convince another company to give you a change to prove yourself. Mistakes can make us into better people and better employees if we are willing to learn from them.