When asked why do want to leave your current job? What would you reply. I have always wondered what the best answer would be. SBH

Honesty pays.... they will see through anything you try to hide and this will give a bad impression but remain positive at all times - about everyone. What attracted to to look for a new opportunity/leave? Even if it was 'I didn't get on with my boss...' express this as 'my position didn't allow me to extend to what I think is my full potential and I want to be able to do this to increase my job satisfaction'.

1. I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patients. 2. I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it. 3. Finally, I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it, I couldn't cut the mustard.

I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice.

It seems that indeed this question is outdated. Since I have been having quite a few interviews the past few months, read many books on the current trends, I can say that I never came across this certain question. At most of the occasions an interview nowadays goes like this: 1)Welcoming/ice breaking 2)Tell us a bit about yourself 3)STAR interview technique (largest part of interview) on skills/experiences/value addition, followed by a couple smart (not always) questions like: Why should we hire you? Why do you want to work for our company? (chance to get extra points) 4)Your questions to the interviewers (chance to get even more extra points) 5)Closing of interview Most of the interviewers have stopped asking questions that will possibly put the interviewee in a difficult spot. Some still do it for a couple of reasons: 1)to challenge 2)cause they are completely ignorant. The latter is coming from an example of the by far worst interview I have ever had in my life. But in any case, if a "negative" question comes up to challenge you, you will always have to answer in a positive way and turn this to your favor. e.g. I am looking for varied experience, want to expand my knowledge, I feel like I have way more to give in a more challenging role/project/company

My advice would be not to say that you "have no experience" I would say "due to lack of exposure" It is being honest and doesn't seem as bad saying I have no experience

It's an interesting one. I agree entirely that you have to be honest, but it's also important to be selectively honest... So, at my last interview (for my current job) I was asked the flip-side of the question in the OP; 'Why do you want to work for us?' This also implies 'why do you want to leave your current job?' My answer was based on what I knew about the work that both organisations do - I said that humanitarian response was more important to me than providing hospice and disability care, and that I had reached a stage in my life where I was reflecting on what I was achieving in life. What I didn't say was that I didn't get on with the new senior management team in my then current place of work, and that there was a mutual lack of confidence. Give it a positive spin. It's easy to invoke 'ideals' as a motive in the voluntary sector, but my point is really that you must give a positive reason, rather than banging on about how useless your previous employer was, even if they were, John