Should you always be 100% honest about why you left a previous job? I've never lied about my reasoning but I've definitely omitted a few details when I thought it might look bad during interviews.

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A general answer like “A better opportunity came up” or “I was looking for something that would better fit my direction in the future” should work.

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I struggled with this in my last interview before I landed this job! I was really really vague about why I left (used responses I found when I googled “how to answer why I am leaving my current job in an interview).. because my precious job was quite toxic and if I didn’t leave my boss was out to find reasons to fire me and I wasn’t about to say that 🤣

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Just say that you are a responsible curator of your own career and that previous company has exhausted all growth opportunities for YOU. New company, new chapter.

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Absolutely nothing wrong with leaving out details

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No, never. Lie, embellish, manipulate, & make yourself look good. It's a game. Don't fool yourself for a second that winners don't play it.

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Is this suitable for US only? Or UK also? :o

Actually i had to talk about in my exit interview everything bad happened and the bad environment the management created and how toxic it was everyday to work with them.

And i was happy to give them hard time while investigating with them about it

I’m pretty sure he is asking when interviewing with a new company not an exit interview. For the exit interview for sure say what you want and how you feel but for a new job something like “the manager just hated me” just doesn’t sit quite right.

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