How To Answer Questions About Career History - Part 1

This cast describes Career Tool's recommendations for answering questions about your career history.

We get questions all the time from people who feel that their career history is less than stellar than they'd like. Often, they have concerns about just what to say when asked "why did you leave this job?" or "what prompted that decision?" In fact, sometimes they go as far as not interviewing, and not moving up, because they are so concerned about this question.

The good news is that this question has a clear answer - and honestly, even though interviewers ask it a lot, it matters less to them than you'd probably guess. The art of answering it is to assign it it's proper importance in your mind, decide how you're going to answer and concentrate on the parts of your interview which demonstrate your competence. And sure, depending on the reasons for that decision or departure you might get a minus point here. But the rest of your interview can add up to so many positive points that it becomes irrelevant.