[HPFGU-OTChatter] Need job interview advice. Please.

[Chancie]

Luckdragon: 
I am posting this way off topic question here because I have found many 
great calculating minds on this website and I would really value any 
insight any of you may have to offer.

A few years ago I was employed in a job I loved, but working for an 
employer who lost 90% of her original employees within the first year 
of business because she used her employees as scapegoats for her 
mistakes.
My first year earned me a merit raise and recognition, however soon 
afterwards her mistakes revolved around my work and I became her next 
victim. Not wanting to have my reputation tarnished I quit, and went 
back to my previous career. For quite a while now I have found myself 
really missing the job I did with her company and have decided to look 
for a similar job elsewhere. My dilemma is in what do I say to 
prospective employers when asked why I left. If I am truthful and say I 
left due to conflict with my employer a red flag is instantly raised. 
Does anyone have any advice on how to creatively, but truthfully get 
through this question.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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Chancie:

I understand your problem! I had to quit a job because my boyfriend
(who is now my husband)'s grandmother passed away, and instead of
my boss letting me leave an hour early so that I could drive 4 hours
and be there the night before, she let her night closer leave and told
me that she needed me to stay and close in his place.  That would
have meant that I would have had to stay until around 2am, and I 
was scheduled to leave at 10.  I went on a 3 min break to think, 
came back put my uniform shirt in the office, and just left.

After I returned home, and began my search for a new job, I would 
write my reason for leaving as "scheuling issues", and when I was
questioned I would tell them what happened being sure not too seem
too egar to give the details, because I didn't want the interviewer to 
think that I enjoyed gossiping, or that I had a disrespectful attitude.

I don't know what your feild of work was/is, but in my experience
most people have had to deal with jerks who get themselves in a 
place of some type of power, and go crazy with it.  But I don't 
think I would use the word "conflict" it makes it sound more 
serious.  I would probably use "difference of opinion".  Or maybe
you could just say that you found yourself in an uncomfortable
cercomstance, and you thought that best way to resolve it would
be to remove yourself from the situation. 

Could you possibly give your future employer references from 
people who worked with you at the job you quit? That way you
could just let them tell how much of a nightmare your boss was
to work for, then you wouldn't have to.

Don't know if I was any help at all, but I do wish you luck
in finding a job you enjoy!

Chancie


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