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ESLPod.com presents "Interview Questions Answered," episode two.
Hello, I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
This series is designed to teach you the English you need to know to have a successful interview.
We'll first listen to some tips on how to answer these questions, and then we'll listen to and explain two sample answers for the question.
Our questioned in this episode is: "Why did you leave you last job, and why are you looking for a new job?"
Let's start with some tips on answering this question.
Your goal in answering this question is to show the interviewer that you had good reasons for leaving your last job-your previous position.
You want to minimize any problems that you had; that is you don't want them to think that you were a bad employee or that your old boss hated you.
That would not be a good reason for leaving your job because it may indicate to them that you will not be a good worker for them.
So, the important point here is to look for the positive reasons for you wanting to leave your job right now and look for a new job.
So, the first tip is to mention the positive reasons.
These could be things like "I want a new challenge,"
"I want to use my skills in a different way,"
"I want to have more responsibility," things that indicate that you are, perhaps, ambitious-that you want to get ahead-that you want to be successful.
The second tip in answering this question is to never criticize supervisors, coworkers or the company.
It's not a good idea to say, "Well, I'm leaving my job because my boss is an idiot."
Your boss might be an idiot; that might be true, I know mine is, but that's not a very good reason to give the employer that you are interviewing with because they will think negatively of you.