Working Your Exit Plan

Interview: How To Explain Why You’re Leaving A Job Without TMI or Burning Bridges

Transition Tips

Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash

In my first article we discuss how to make an Exit Plan. Step 4 is update your resume and interview.

How To Make An Exit Plan When Work Has Worked Your Last Nerve

Now, how do you explain why you’re leaving? If you’re like me, you believe that honesty is the best policy and it is. As a matter of fact, lying on your resume or interview can be cause for termination. However, you have to find the delicate balance between telling the truth and sharing too much. Too much information (TMI) is never a good professional practice.

Know your audience and put yourself in their shoes. Would you want a new employee who’s fleeing drama or willing to share all your company’s ugly secrets? Be careful! The world might be a big place, but networks make it really small and easy to verify information through “informal” channels. I’ll expand on this more at the end.

If you have your current employer listed and they ask why you’re leaving, start by saying, “I’m…