Quitting your job

Treehugged

This isn't the biggest problem in the world but I am beginning to see that I need to choose my words carefully when giving a reason for leaving my job:

I was working as a telemarketer for two and a half years but quit earlier this month. I left in good standing: my strike rate was high, they gave me the awkward projects knowing I'd get answers etc. I got on with my colleagues and management, but ultimatley the job was borinng as fcuk and I could no longer stand it.

What do I tell prospective employers? I can't exactly say 'the job was boring so I left'.

All suggestions gratefully received. :cool:

Person_one

You were ready for new challenges!

Treehugged

Person_one wrote: »

You were ready for new challenges!

That's a good one but it's really tough out there and no-one in their right mind would quit their job without securing another first. I'm worried they'll view me as unreliable. I know my former employers will provide good references so no worries there. I just think the prospective ones might see me as 'flighty'.

Treehugged

I'll be gone for a while (on my way home) so I'll answer other suggestions when I get home.

duchy

Really ?

Two and a half years with one telemarketing company is a miracle !!

I doubt anyone is going to think you are "flighty" unless you give a really flighty and flakey impression when you are interviewed.

I'd be more concerned about why someone left without securing another job first as an employer though. So why did you *really* leave. No employer with half a brain is going to believe you suddenly decided you were bored and just left -you will need to do better than that !

Mista_C

Person_one wrote: »

You were ready for new challenges!

...and wanted a little time to best consider the direction you wanted to go and the best way to approach it.

PlutoinCapricorn

Came to a natural break; had not been taking holidays so wanted to have some free time in the summer (for the Olympics? / personal and family reasons?) with no commitments...

martinthebandit

I can see 2 options that you can tell prospective employers,

1. I worked hard and was a successful, well regarded team member, however I began to see the job as not challenging enough, it wasn't developing me.

Unfortunately I was comfortable and knew that unless I bit the bullet and left I could be there for many more years. So I leapt out of the comfort zone, maybe unwisely, only time will tell, or;

2. I am a bit of an unreliable ejit.

Personally I would go with a variation of option 1

Treehugged

duchy wrote: »

Really ?

Two and a half years with one telemarketing company is a miracle !!

I doubt anyone is going to think you are "flighty" unless you give a really flighty and flakey impression when you are interviewed.

I'd be more concerned about why someone left without securing another job first as an employer though. So why did you *really* leave. No employer with half a brain is going to believe you suddenly decided you were bored and just left -you will need to do better than that !

Well, I did volunteer work twice a week to stay in my professional loop, so it helped me to cope for the two and a half years, but boredom eventually got the better of me. Towards the end-last 8 months- I dreaded going in. I've never in all my history of working, ever dreaded going in to work. Never. But this job put an end to that. You have no idea how soul destroying this type of work is, and I think it was worse for me because I came from a reasonably challenging, interesting and worthwhile career to dialing numbers all day.

OK I lie, we don't dial the numbers, they dial themselves. Ceaselessly.

Treehugged

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

Came to a natural break; had not been taking holidays so wanted to have some free time in the summer (for the Olympics? / personal and family reasons?) with no commitments...

Hmm that's a good one..but really? Summer breaks are just that, a break. I suppose I could say that I'd saved loads to tide me over the coming months.

sniggings

Treehugged wrote: »

OK I lie, we don't dial the numbers, they dial themselves. Ceaselessly.

:rotfl: I was going to say, what 3rd world company were you working for!