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Reasons for dismissal most often cited on resumes

In 98% of cases, employees quit of their own free will. At least that’s what’s written in the work books.

And this happens because the company will face a fine and increased attention from the labor inspectorate for dismissal under the article.

But you understand that recruiters won’t give up so easily.

It’s not for nothing that we, after all, compared employment to dating.

The reasons for dismissal on HR resumes are most often seen as:

• qualifications turned out to be excessive for job responsibilities;
• the work did not bring moral satisfaction;
• a “ceiling” in development has been reached;
• career growth within the company is impossible;
• initiatives did not receive management support.

But these are all general phrases - get ready for additional questions.

Answer questions in such a way that HR has no doubts about your personal and professional qualities.

About: how to behave during an interview so that they call you back

- read here.

From your answer, a good interviewer will see your motivation, ability to resolve conflicts, and knowledge of business etiquette.

Some HR draw conclusions about the candidate’s loyalty at this stage, which is not entirely correct, but nevertheless...

If the recruiter doubts your sincerity, he may call your former boss

Now do you regret that you sent the director when you quit?

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Change of activity

Sometimes applicants want to radically change the scope of their work or change the specifics. In this case, it is better to formulate the reasons for dismissal as follows.

• I want to change the direction of my activity. The company I currently work for is exclusively engaged in trade, and I want to try to apply my knowledge in production.
• Change of type of work, team, direction of the company. Doing the same thing for 10 years, even with a gradual expansion of responsibilities, leads to automatic performance of the assigned functions. Because of this, there are no prospects for professional and personal development.
• Professional and career growth. At the current place of employment there is no prospect of changing the direction of activity and opportunities for career growth.
• Expansion of professional responsibilities. I want to use my experience, skills and knowledge not as a narrow specialist, but as a generalist professional.

Good to know: Additional information in your resume
Perhaps the recruiter will want to clarify and ask you to tell, for example, what specific professional responsibilities you have grown beyond.

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How to correctly write the reason for dismissal

So, the reason for changing jobs in the resume: what to write and how to write it?

Let's remember the purpose of the resume:

A well-written resume describes competencies and skills - but remember to emphasize the skills and experience that are relevant

future responsibilities.

The general rules for resumes and cover letters apply here:

Laconic-simple-competent.

Do not try to confuse the recruiter with complex terms or formulations.

Although initially the resume does not contain a block about your previous place of work, you can rest assured that the recruiter will certainly ask you about it.

Therefore, if you are determined to talk about your previous relationships, use the “work experience”

, line after job responsibilities.

Just let your reason be:

1. believable
2. specific,
3. without vague wording.

But when the recruiter asks you to talk about this reason during the interview, then you will tell your sob story about a failed relationship in three acts.

Wherein:

• do not focus on negative aspects,
• do not try to prove that you are being treated unfairly,
• be tactful.

If you blame your past employer for your failures, the recruiter will conclude that you don't know how to get along with people.

How to change jobs without headaches

- look here.

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Why are we quitting?

When you have just graduated from university, started your full-time job, live alone or with your parents, it’s even somehow fun and exciting to quit: a change of team, new diverse tasks, experience is pumped up at a breakneck speed, you can choose a place of work, try companies of different levels and even different areas. But everything changes as soon as you become the sole breadwinner for elderly parents or start a family for which you are responsible. The time has come for the cautious saying “measure twice, cut once.” But in a commercial environment, layoffs are still inevitable, and there are a number of reasons for this, besides standard cuts and “at the request of the manager.”

▍New promising job

This is perhaps the most important reason to change jobs - when you are offered new cool tasks, an interesting company and a good salary increase, it is difficult to refuse. Because this is your life and only you are responsible for your well-being. If you are satisfied with everything and you are confident in the new employer, you firmly understand that this level of tasks and remuneration on the current project will not be achieved in the near future, you should think about changing jobs and make a difficult decision. The fact is that a professional must grow and develop, otherwise a point of stagnation will come and you will no longer be able to claim the place that awaits you with open arms today.

▍Conflict at work

This reason can easily compete with the first.
The conflict can be with the manager, with the team, with some individual colleague. Burning or smoldering, sooner or later it may not be resolved, but will exhaust and force one of the parties to simply leave. Leaving because of a conflict is not the best decision; it must be justified and balanced. If you leave because of a conflict, everyone should know exactly about this reason, without “hiding” the matter - this way you can warn other colleagues from the same trouble. However, it is necessary to leave not against the backdrop of a scandal, but in the fading phase or during a respite within the corporate feud.

An example from life. The boss and her deputy tried to re-educate the new girl to suit themselves. Measures like drinking beer, going to a movie together, or having dinner at a restaurant were not carried out due to the fact that the new girl preferred to work at work. It didn’t work out to fire her during the probationary period, and bullying began: she was given impossible tasks, KPIs were lowered, and rude letters were sent. The girl began to experience neurasthenia, which quickly progressed to neurosis and affected the gastrointestinal tract. She was forced to quit. However, the general, appreciating her work, transferred her to another unit. After three years of wonderful life, the company underwent reform and the old bosses returned with all the consequences. Survived. It was not possible to fully restore health.

▍Professional burnout

This reason can be called the most respectful, because it is complex: there are psychological reasons, and attitude towards one’s duties, and a decrease in the quality of work.
And yes, indeed, dismissal is one of the methods of combating burnout. In such a situation, you need to think about whether it’s really worth quitting: the burnout will pass, and you’ll find yourself in a new job, and it’s not a fact that a hasty decision will be successful. Before you quit due to burnout, evaluate the existing opportunities: vacation, short-term vacation, change of project or team, or even a whole gap year (this practice is rare, but it does occur). If you realize that burnout is just a convenient excuse to make a long-overdue decision, feel free to change your job, but don’t forget to take at least a couple of weeks off. Any job requires a little bit of boredom.

▍Boring job

This syndrome is very similar to burnout, but has a fundamental difference: it is not your attitude towards work that changes, but the work itself and your place within the project.
As a rule, this happens when you perform some routine tasks (for example, conduct manual testing) or spend a long time working on the same project that you are simply tired of. When quitting in this case, you need to understand that you will get tired of another job and another. By the way, according to observation, this reason prevails among young professionals who already know how to see the glass ceiling, but do not yet know how to break through it. The advice is simple: think about how you can develop along with your current project, what skills you can improve to move to the next level. For example, a manual testing engineer might learn a new programming language and write scripts for automated testing or work with database management.

▍Relocation to another city/country

A clear and valid reason for dismissal.
The case when you have already decided everything and you just need to say goodbye well. There is one small nuance: quit only when you are one hundred percent sure of the offer and moving to another city or prospects in a new country, do not take risks in advance “in search of happiness.” It's unlikely, but you may have to return to your city and even to your company. An example from life. A commercial director from a large Russian city was invited to work in Moscow for a large international company. Everything was great until 2014, then the company closed its main Russian division and he could not find a job in the required time frame. I had to return to my hometown, where during three interviews something like “yeah, you weren’t useful in Moscow, now you’re trying here.” And they took him to his previous job, albeit in a different position, but at a salary higher than what it was before the dismissal.

▍Personal reasons

The most vague group of reasons for dismissal, including the most incredible: from an unsuccessful office romance to the uncomfortable arrangement of toilet stalls in the office.
Sometimes the reasons seem far-fetched, but they are quite real: if nothing keeps a person at work (interest in the project, relationships in the team, prospects), then any little thing can lead to a resignation letter. This is the most difficult class of workers to retain. The only way out: leave well, let go in peace. Of course, there may be other reasons, simple and completely incredible, but they are much less common.

Neutral reasons for dismissal: what are they?

Reasons related to life circumstances are considered neutral.

For example:

• Moving
• Having a child, starting a family
• Work schedule does not suit
• Staff reduction
• Change of management team in the company
• The employer did not keep his promises

Sometimes the objective reason for changing jobs in the resume overlaps with the subjective one

.

For example:

• The salary is too low
• Desire to change specialty
• Unacceptable working conditions

Why are these subjective reasons?
Because the recruiter will immediately have a question:
what, before the working conditions were normal, but now suddenly something has changed?
It’s better not to talk about such things so as not to drive yourself into a trap.

Sometimes an employer fires an employee and makes an entry in the work book “at his own request.”
However, the actual reason was absenteeism, tardiness, and violation of labor discipline. We do not encourage you to lie on your resume, but in this case it is better not to talk about the reason for your dismissal. Of course, unless the recruiter asks you directly about it. Salary
is a common reason for changing jobs. If your requirements are objective (the average wage level for similar positions is higher, there are more job responsibilities), then the employer will treat the situation with understanding.

“The recruiter will not hesitate to ask why you are suddenly no longer satisfied with the salary level and what salary you expect in the new place. Prepare in advance for this question, analyze the market and soberly evaluate yourself by preparing a “fork” of your desired salary.

Reasons that should not be voiced

There are also several reasons that are not recommended to be included in your resume. During the interview, they should be voiced and explained so that the mistakes that led to the dismissal are understood and an appropriate conclusion is drawn from this.

Thus, it is undesirable to talk about reasons for dismissal such as:

• by nature he did not get along with his colleagues;
• did not meet the requirements set by the employer or his manager;
• I could no longer work in a team that consisted of unpleasant people;
• was unable to attend advanced training courses;
• comfortable working conditions were not created at work;
• the employer demanded to work longer than the normal working day, while the additional payments provided for by law were not made;
• the employer paid low wages, there was no possibility of its growth;
• not used to working in one place for longer than three years;
• the employer paid most of the salary in an envelope, which negatively affected the payment of insurance premiums for future pension accrual;
• was dismissed at the end of the probationary period;
• got laid off despite sufficient professionalism;
• The reason for the dismissal was the crisis in the country.

Remember! It is important to know that, having indicated the real reason for dismissal, it can be expected that the employer may assess that the applicant is a conflict-ridden person who has difficulty settling into the workforce, has not achieved a well-deserved salary increase, is too picky, and cannot keep a trade secret.

Positive reasons for changing jobs

Along with neutral reasons, there are also those that characterize you on the positive side.

These are reasons that speak of motivation, career or professional growth, and the desire to learn new things.

Be sure to mention this.

This way the recruiter will understand that for you the job is not just “money”

, but professional interest.

That is, he will have no doubts about your motivation, potential and ability to learn.

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What to write on your resume if you were fired due to an article

If you were fired under an article - we sympathize

. Getting a job will not be easy and lying about it during an interview is useless.

The recruiter will still see the employment history and contact the previous employer.

Therefore your tactics

– clearly explain the reasons for parting with the employer, talking about this at the interview:

It’s clear that you can’t tell about this in two lines of your resume, but you have a cover letter...

If you are sincere

, you will gain the trust of the employer, even if you were fired under the article.

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How to behave when you quit?

▍Talk to yourself

Before you announce your departure from the company, sit down with yourself and honestly say and write down why you are leaving, what motivates you, what bad things you will lose and good things you will gain.
Determine whether the formal reason is a stupid insult or your stubborn reluctance to solve the problem on the spot. On a blank sheet of paper, write by hand + and - current job and + and - future employer. This helps a lot to understand what is really happening and how objective you are. Be sure to compare material benefits, including salary levels, time to work, transport conditions and accessibility, infrastructure, additional bonuses, etc.

Only after a detailed analysis make a final decision, so that later you don’t blame yourself for anything and don’t beat yourself in the forehead, waiting on the outskirts of the city for the only bus or spending your “increase” in salary on random taxis, food and the forced purchase of a comfortable mouse, keyboard and chair. Or, on the contrary, do not be tempted by an A+ class office and go to the territory of a former factory with high windows, but to cool colleagues, interesting tasks and growing income.

▍Notify about leaving in advance

Firing at the last minute is a big setback for your employer. If you are leaving not because of a conflict or because of problematic reasons unfairly turned against you, and the decision to leave is yours, do the decent thing: communicate your plans to change jobs in advance. After all, you still have so much to do:

• put things in order and complete your tasks;
• complete tasks with your participation;
• train a successor;
• finally quit all work tasks.

However, take into account the specifics of dismissal in your company.
It happens (especially in large companies) that at the first notice of your upcoming dismissal, you are denied access to work projects, internal systems, and even your work email. This doesn't mean you're bad or untrustworthy - it's just that security people are doing their job. If you are aware of this practice, first complete matters that are personally significant to you, make sure that all necessary personal information is deleted and saved, and only then report your plans to quit. If you give notice about leaving a month in advance rather than 2 weeks in advance, your manager will be grateful and you may even receive additional bonuses. After all, you didn't work on a project just to quit overnight. By the way, the timing of notification of the upcoming dismissal also depends on the specialty: for example, if it is relatively easy to intercept a tester’s banner (test cases are described, environments are configured, the bug tracker is alive), then with development or commerce things are much more complicated, and the most acute situation is — with managers, starting from the level of project manager and team lead.

▍Don’t refuse to train your successor

Again, if you leave on good terms, do not burn bridges behind you, but train a successor from among the employees or help find a person to replace you.
This is important not only for the company, but also for saving your project, all the work you did day after day. In addition, training your successor will give you the opportunity to retrospectively and systematically go through your path in the company and once again analyze mistakes and achievements, and this will not be superfluous in a new place. If you leave “not very well” - I know from myself - you want to be mischievous, not teach anyone, and on the contrary, make sure that after you there will be a real flood. I hasten to remind you of two things: 1) if the company is normal, there will be no flood - colleagues will endure it; 2) don’t spit in the well, the IT industry is very dense and full of rumors. The only thing that can be done quite elegantly is to convey only basic knowledge without secrets of skill and personal tricks and leave as quickly as possible. There's no point in shitting, it's guaranteed to backfire. Even if you are a super pro.

▍The manager should be the first to know about the dismissal

This is the golden rule.
If you have a direct supervisor and the reason for leaving is not in conflict with him, he should be the first to know; if there is a conflict - the closest manager in the hierarchy; if the company is small and management is centralized, then go straight to the general manager. Do not share with work friends, colleagues, etc. under any circumstances. — news of the dismissal should not reach the manager in the form of rumors. The team should find out about your departure only after talking with the boss. By the way, sometimes the manager has motives to ask you not to announce your resignation right away - and this is worth listening to (for example, he is afraid of “fighting” for a position, bullying, pressure, etc.). He probably knows something more than you. An example from life. In one medium-sized IT company, a tester wrote his financial accounting application - mostly in the evenings at home, because he lived alone and was bored. I bragged to my colleagues. After some time, he was invited to a top company (hunted for his English + powerful Python) for incomparable money. He, being one of the favorites, went to the boss: so and so. And the boss says to him: “You, Vasya, let’s close the case, but don’t tell anyone in particular.” Why? “Yes, for the past six months they’ve been writing denunciations about you about your pet project, they’re jealous, everyone is happy about your departure and everyone will start pushing their own people into your place.” And he showed a dozen “anonymous” emails. Vasya left silently, shaking hands only with his boss.

You should inform your colleagues about your resignation with the utmost restraint and reasoning, without giving rise to complaints, gossip and rumors. Whatever happens, let there be no discrepancies. If possible, notify a day or two before dismissal. This will make it morally easier even for you - you won’t feel like you’ve been cut off by a piece.

▍Work until the end

Unless you are specifically removed from work, calmly carry out your duties to the end. Firstly, this way you will not create unnecessary fuss, and secondly, you yourself will be calmer: you will be distracted from the chaotic thoughts that are inevitable during a job change. There is one more point: if the new job falls through (and this is not so rare), you can simply continue working, having explained it to management. Although this will be a completely different job, it will give you some time.

▍Don’t complain or badmouth your former job

Simple psychology works: “If he says that about them now, what is the probability that tomorrow he won’t say that about us?”
If you begin to increase your worth by humiliating your previous place of work and work in contrast, saying that they are all terrible, but I am good and they survived me, you will arouse maximum suspicion. Do not do this, even if you are provoked into such behavior. The best position: as with everything, there were pros and cons, experience was gained, there was strength and skills to grow further. A story from life. The girl Masha was bullied in the development department, where she came as a junior. She tried her best, but she was poked at every mistake, providing comments with unflattering epithets like “weak, uneducated, where they only taught.” The star of the department, Irina, simply didn’t like her. Everything would be fine, but tears-stained Masha was seen more than once by colleagues from other departments and they finally reached the general manager, who recently conducted the interview - Masha then “took” 17 technical questions out of 20 and he personally invited her to join the staff. He talked with the head of the department and realized that Maria needed to be moved - he had already decided for himself that for testing, where her knowledge would be useful, and the team was extremely friendly. However, for the sake of order, he scolded Masha, intimidated her, and then asked: “What do you think happened?” He was ready for a barrel of dirt about Irina and Co., but Masha raised her eyes and, not without irony, but calmly said: “Probably, I just didn’t fit in with my terrible character in their sincere and wonderful team.” Isn't this a sign of adequacy? Masha worked excellently in testing for 4 years, left the company with great warmth, and for 7 years now she has been remembered as one of the best. Irina was laid off after a couple of years.

Well, the main advice is - regardless of the circumstances and reasons for dismissal, keep a good impression of yourself and, if possible, maintain friendship with the company. I have come across situations more than once when former colleagues changed jobs and invited their former comrades to work with them because they remembered them as calm and adequate professionals.

Reasons that are best kept silent

Recruiters select personnel based on competencies and look at business and human qualities. A new employee should easily fit into the team and be involved in the work process.

Those who will win here are those who remain cool in the face of conflict, are friendly towards others, and are pleasant in communication.

But those who believe that the recruiter does not care about your previous working relationships will lose:

If you want to get a place, just rephrase your reasons:

neutral again.

reasons and find the one that best describes the situation.

And don’t try to push for pity or seek justice at the interview - this will lead to refusal.

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The reason for dismissal is in the labor report and in the resume

Once again we urge you:

Do not lie.

If the recruiter sees even one inconsistency, you will immediately lose his trust.

If your employment record says “fired for absenteeism,” you don’t need to write in your resume that you separated by mutual consent.

Another thing is that you can (and, in fact, should) explain yourself.

And then suddenly, you didn’t hear the last boss, and instead of:
“no May holidays”
you heard
“go to Bali for a month
.

Anything can happen...

But if the work was carried out under an employment contract, the task is simplified. After all, there will be no entries in the labor record.

Please indicate:

1. expiration of the contract term,
2. fulfillment of the assigned amount of work

Even if you do not agree with the dismissal, you should not speak negatively about the employer. Keep your emotions and feelings to yourself

Did you know that a correctly formulated basis for dismissal is a bonus for the applicant?

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The most common reasons for leaving a job

• Firstly , the reduction order must indicate its date. The notice period for employees depends on it.
• Secondly , notice of dismissal for employees subject to layoffs is issued no later than two months before the future dismissal. Such notices are issued to each employee individually against signature. It also lists the positions that can be provided, as required by Art. 180 TC, if such work is available. It should be noted that vacancies are offered as they become available, up to the date of termination. If the employee agrees to another job, a transfer is issued.
• Thirdly , if there is a trade union organization, it is notified of the reduction 2 months before the start of dismissal of employees, including those who are not members of the PS, which corresponds to the definition of the Constitutional Court of January 15, 2008 No. 201-O-P. If we are talking about mass dismissal, then this period is increased to three months (for example, during the liquidation of an organization).

In addition to salary and monetary compensation for unused vacation, the employer pays him severance pay - average monthly earnings, and also retains his average monthly earnings for the period until he finds a job, but this period should not exceed 2 months.

What reasons for dismissal are suitable?

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Dismissal without explanation

3. In cases where, based on the conclusion of the certification commission, a decision was made that the employee’s qualifications do not correspond to the position held, after the fact that the employee does not want to improve the level of his knowledge, he may be dismissed for incompatibility with the position held.

After checking the specified facts about non-compliance with labor legislation upon dismissal, recognizing the claims as legitimate and justified, the employee can be reinstated at work with the recovery from the enterprise in his favor of average earnings for all days of forced absence - from the date of dismissal until reinstatement in his previous position .