I’m considering pulling the plug on a job I started ~6 months ago and looking for other opportunities. The clients at my current agency are more difficult than I expected and I feel like I could be in a better situation somewhere else.

What’s a good way to explain wanting to leave a job in less than 1 year in an interview? In a way that doesn’t make me sound like a living, breathing red flag lol

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“It turned out the opportunity was pretty different from what I had been told during the interview process”

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve either heard that or said that. Because…it’s true. Things change. I’ve also been hired by someone who, in my first month of work, left the company - and my new boss’s communication style was very different.

If you have the ability to get a new gig, just post the old one here so someone can jump on it!

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Lie and say it was contract based?

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I don’t think you should do this. It is possible they contact your previous employer for a bg check… no need to lie here!

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Be honest. It wasn’t a good fit, you were given different expectations. As long as your whole resume isn’t short stints this is industry standard.

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I'm in the same position at the moment. After three months of employment at the company, I'm looking for another job because we agreed on different terms, tasks, and conditions, and I'm not okay with that. so I will be vocal about that in the interview. and I hope that HR will understand that. Before that, I had 5 years in one company, and they had 1 year for each of the 2 next jobs.

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I hear people get wary of people with a history of ship abandoning. If it’s a one off, i doubt anyone would care, especially given the last 2 years of this industry.

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