Candidate Jive Talkin'​: Classic Explanations of Job Change Reasons That Don't Go Well (and how to fix it).

By Russ Riendeau & Tim Tolan (Note: this article appeared first in 2018 on LinkedIn and on Hunt Scanlon Media under a different Title. With today's pandemic, these strategies will be even more important as interview sessions will be scrutinized by hiring managers as competition for jobs could increase.

Since the dawn of man, job interviewing has been a stress point for interviewer and interviewee. Reasons for leaving a job, reasons why one got let go/fired/downsized/rightsized/supersized/--the list is endless. And so is the list of attempted explanations that people use to try and explain/justify/rationalize/sugarcoat/avoid the real reason/excuse one's way to the real truth around the desire to change jobs or why the person lost their job.

If you are a hiring manager, this piece will help you see the need to drive harder to seek the truth in an applicant's explanations for a job change to insure the truth is the truth. If you are a candidate, know that search professionals are good at their job and they have heard it all before. If you have a flaw, a untruth, it will be uncovered. If you have a weak part of your game, demonstrate what action steps you're doing right now to overcome and improve those weak parts.

Click here to read the entire article "24 Ways to Work With an Executive Recruiter" posted by Hunt Scanlon Media. See if you've fallen into the trap of giving a convenient answer that want bad.