Answer "Why Are You Leaving?"
Added 2026-11-01
Do not criticise your last employer; explain where you are going and make the motive checkable.
I need to answer "why are you leaving?" in an interview. I will give the real reason and what I want next. Do: 1) draft a 30-second answer that spends the first half on where I want to go and only then explains why the current role cannot get me there; 2) remove or rewrite anything that could sound like complaining; 3) make the motive checkable — for example, wanting to build something from scratch while the current team only maintains; 4) prepare an answer to the follow-up "what if the new company is the same?" 5) flag the sentence the interviewer is most likely to remember and probe.
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How to use
离职理由讲「去向」，不讲「来路」。
Try tweaking it
- Rewrite each experience as action + result + verifiable number.
- Have it gather the job requirements first, then rewrite against them.
What you should get
- Rewritten bullets: action, result, number
- Likely follow-up questions and how to answer
Common mistakes
- Asking it to "optimise the CV", and every line starts sounding like a template.
- Adding projects you never did — it falls apart in the first interview.
How to check the output
- Each line is action + result + number, and you can defend the details.
- Nothing you did not actually do has been added.
Where it works
- Good for: rewriting experience as action + result + verifiable metric for CVs and interviews.
- Watch out: metrics must be real; AI can phrase them, not invent them.