What to Say If You Were Fired from a Job
Learn what to say if you were fired from a job in this how to get a job video from Howcast. Expert: Nicole Williams
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What do you say if you've been fired from a job? Well at the end of the day, you have to tell the truth. The world is small and if you say you didn't get fired and you were fired, you're going to be found out and you can be considered a lot, which is worse than actually being fired for a reasonable reason. The thing about being fired is you want to somehow communicate the fact that there was a mutual lack of fit, because what you don't want to have happen is the person on the other side of the desk thinking, "This person could not be the fit for me. I could have this exact same problem." So as much as possible, you want to communicate the fact that this is what happened, this is how I'm going to ensure that this never happens in this company, and this is how we're going to work together so that this issue that I was fired for is never going to be a problem for you. If you were fired for doing something specific, the person is thinking, "Are they going to do it again? Is that going to be a problem within this organization?" So as much as possible, you want to communicate the fact that that problem doesn't exist in this current opportunity. So that is how you get out of and work around the question, "Were you fired from your previous job?"
