When a job application asks your reason for leaving a job and were you ever fired what is the best way to answer?

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Answer honestly. That's what all employers are looking for. Just because you were fired doesn't mean you won't get hired.

Among the specific suggestions:

• There was no scope for upward mobility
• Better opportunity
• Unresolvable conflicts
• not enough hours
• personality conflicts

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They're probably only looking for honesty. If I felt the need to cover it up a little, I would blame it on downsizing, but honesty is the best policy.

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Be honest. Be prepared to explain (ex. refused to perform certain activites to unsafe working conditions). Was not able to keep up with pace in that type of job due to health issues- ex. repetitive stress injuries. Could also restate question:"My position was terminated in 1995 at xyz because, however, I really enjoyed working there." Never speak badly about previous employers- no matter how much they sucked. Because new employer wouldn't want you leaving and speaking badly about their organization. Good Luck!!!

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I have not recieved any employment opportunities since I have been honest stating the reason I was let go. On the application I state "Let go for a personal problem would, like to discuss". I always explain in the interview that "I was let go for a personal problem that affected my attendance. The problem is resolved, I am willing and ready to return to work. I am always told the position was given to a more qualified individual. I dont believe this response. I am continually told that a past employer cannot say I was fired. Is this true? Or can I say that there was a lay off? Please respond, Thanks

Tell him that u can't find PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE THERE.

U see, a non-decisive answer provides for others to think of Other imp subjective things. This also provides time 4 U to evade a decision making reply,that gives away In-depth idea of UR attitude. It is not so easy to be like that.

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A previous employer can say you were fired. However, They can't state anything more. like Why, when, what happened and so forth. I have not had any luck either with being honest. Getting fired sucks. Time heals I guess.

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Employers can provide any information that they are asked provided by applicable local or state law. You can provide whatever reason you feel necessary regarding the situation or reasons of why your employment ended, but if you allow the potential employer to contact your previous employers, you open the door for criticism and you could be caught in a lie, providing that you fasified the nature and reasoning of your employment and the circumstances on how it ended. The best resolve always that if you left an employer on uncertain or unresolved terms and for reasons that you don't really want to disclose, simply state that you left the employer to seek further career opportunities and advancement and decline if they ask that they can contact the previous employer. If you give permission for them to dig into your past employment, you are subject to the nature of your employment, and the actual information you provided, and if the don't match each other, the prospective employer is going to know you lied and is probably not going to hire you.

And to the person who posted the answer stating they never get hired for being honest, from what I can gather from the information you provided is that you were fired from your job for an attendance/performance issue. If that is what you put on an application for a potential employer, of course you're not going to get hired, heck i wouldn't hire you. Employers are looking for dedicated, punctual, and honest people, not individuals who are terminated because the couldn't meet company attendance policies or performance standards.

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