Application materials · Level Starter · Job hunting Interview Leaving
Reason for leaving: without burning bridges
The interviewer asks why I left and the honest answer costs points.
Prompt
One criterion: can a hiring manager tell in twenty seconds that you have done this job. Actions and results, never adjectives.
Task: The interviewer asks why I left and the honest answer costs points.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the real reason
- what I want next
- objective facts about the last employer
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- talk about where I am going, not what I could not stand
- translate complaints into criteria
- never evaluate former managers or colleagues
- support it with a verifiable fact
[Process]
1. Read the job description and extract the three things they screen for
2. Rewrite each experience as context, my action, result
3. Delete unverifiable adjectives
4. Mirror their vocabulary without inventing
5. Name the weakest link
[Output]
Rewritten material, what was cut, what evidence is missing.
[Do not]
- Never invent experience or numbers
- No 'expert' or 'proficient'
- Never one resume for every role
- Do not present duties as achievementsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the real reason
- what I want next
- objective facts about the last employer
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- talk about where I am going, not what I could not stand
- translate complaints into criteria
- never evaluate former managers or colleagues
- support it with a verifiable fact