Worked with a company for 15 years was at the ceiling for my position decided to leave. Now the company I currently work for is not what I was originally hired for causing me to get my resume out there and it seems like the one question I keep getting asked about may be dragging my interviews down. Why would you leave a company after 15 years?

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I don’t know man, what you said in the first sentence didn’t make me bat an eye about why you would have left. That seems like a perfectly good reason. Maybe you could think through how you can explain why you were at the ceiling a little more. Like for me in law, if I tapped out just under the GC of the company, I might say something like “I hit the ceiling of where I could advance to at the company since the GC is not leaving any time soon. While I enjoyed working for Company, I felt as though my career was no longer progressing at Company, so I’m now looking for a role where I can keep gaining more responsibility and continue to develop.”

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You are at the point where you are no longer learning and no longer feel challenged

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