| How should you answer the question "why did you | | | | but hopefully you can utilize other people you used to |
| leave your last job" especially if you were forced to | | | | work with who will positively speak of your experience |
| leave because you didn't get along with your boss? | | | | and skills while employed at the company. |
| If you voluntarily left the company and are asked in an | | | | The reality is that we won't necessarily get along with |
| interview why you left your last job, you might | | | | every single person we work with and conflict |
| approach it in several ways. You could simply tell the | | | | sometimes occurs. |
| truth and briefly tell the interviewer that you and your | | | | I have helped job searchers who got into a dispute |
| supervisor had a disagreement and you decided it | | | | with their boss and who left the company as a result. |
| was in your best interest to leave the company and | | | | Any concern I had with this person was alleviated |
| pursue other employment. | | | | when I was able to get a good reference check from |
| Alternatively, you could answer the question in more | | | | several of their former colleagues. |
| general terms and suggest that it was simply time to | | | | If you anticipate that a company might have a problem |
| do something different and that you left the company | | | | with why you left your previous employer, proactively |
| to pursue alternative employment. | | | | offering references from this company to the |
| Either way if you can get several positive references | | | | interviewer can help prove that you have nothing to |
| from this employer, this will help your cause. I suspect | | | | hide and that they have nothing to fear by employing |
| you won't want to use your supervisor as a reference | | | | you. |