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How should you answer the question "why did you leave your last job" especially if you were forced to leave because you didn't get along with your boss?

If you voluntarily left the company and are asked in an interview why you left your last job, you might approach it in several ways. You could simply tell the truth and briefly tell the interviewer that you and your supervisor had a disagreement and you decided it was in your best interest to leave the company and pursue other employment.

Alternatively, you could answer the question in more general terms and suggest that it was simply time to do something different and that you left the company to pursue alternative employment.

Either way if you can get several positive references from this employer, this will help your cause. I suspect you won't want to use your supervisor as a reference but hopefully you can utilize other people you used to work with who will positively speak of your experience and skills while employed at the company.

The reality is that we won't necessarily get along with every single person we work with and conflict sometimes occurs.

I have helped job searchers who got into a dispute with their boss and who left the company as a result. Any concern I had with this person was alleviated when I was able to get a good reference check from several of their former colleagues.

If you anticipate that a company might have a problem with why you left your previous employer, proactively offering references from this company to the interviewer can help prove that you have nothing to hide and that they have nothing to fear by employing you.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it?s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it?s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it?s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

I?m also a Platinum Ezine Articles Expert as recognized by EzineArticles.com, one of the most visited websites on the Internet. This special designation is earned by having consistently high-quality articles published and viewed on their website. All of my submissions are related to helping you find your dream career and many of my articles get reproduced on other websites by their webmasters.

Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!