People look for job changes at many points of their professional life, and therefore the job interview questions change as the interviewee changes.
If a person is a fresher and looking for a job, the interview questions will be much different than questions asked to an experienced person who is looking for a job change.
One of the first questions that are asked to a person looking to change his job is “why are you looking for a job change?”
Why are you thinking about changing jobs?
Two of the most common answers to this question can be:
- You’ve gained all the professional experience that your current job can offer you and naturally want to enhance/broaden your experience.
- You may even started looking for a new job because there are no promotion prospects or more responsibilities granted in your current job.
You can find more on these reading the articles –
- Reasons for Leaving a Job: Why Do you want to Leave Your Job? Interview question .
- Why Changing Jobs: Reasons for a Job Change
While there are several ways to answer the job interview question ‘why do you want to change the current job?’, there are some don’ts that a person should keep in mind while answering this question: One of the first don’ts are that under no circumstances should the person bad mouth or say anything negative about the company that s/he used to work previously, or even some colleagues that they did not have a good time working with.
This will not only give a bad idea about you to the interviewer, but will also give the impression that you are a habitual complainer.
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