DrewDad wrote:Chai wrote:How not to answer a question....
I see on your profile you are currently driving to San Antonio daily, and would like to be closer to home....
Yes, I'd like to be working in Austin.
Beyond that, is there any other reason you want to leave your current employer?
No, other than the distance, I really like my job, all aspects of it.j
all righty then....
Er...
I will admit that I'm a bit slow on catching subtext during conversation, sometimes.
Why would "I like my job but the commute is just too freaking long" be a poor answer? Moving jobs seems easier than uprooting one's family.
In other words....
So, you don't have any particular passion for (highly specialized field of work you're applying for), you just want to shorten your drive.
I'm in the medical field, and what the person said would be "kind of" the equivelent of a, physician saying....I'm a cardiologist, but I have to drive all the way to San Antonio each day. You're looking for a nehprologist, right close to where I live, so I'd like to apply for that job. Same difference, right?
I'm sure in a lot of fields skillz are more interchangeable. But for many of careers, either the person needs to be specialized, or give a very good reason for wanting to make the adjustment.
In the above case, on paper she might not look a lot different than the person we are going to make a job offer to.....both candidates earned their masters a year and a half to 2 years ago....both have been working in a hospital setting since graduation.
Here was the difference.....The person getting the job said during her initial screening, during her group interview, and during the interview with her to be immediate supervior, "I did my internship while in school at one of your clinics in another state. I developed a strong desire to continue to work in this field and with this particular disease. I knew I could not qualify for a job with you until I had a year or two or clinical experience (those are state regs for that position). So, I got a job with (fill in the blank) hospital, to get the clinical experience. I fulfilled my 2 year commitment to them, and am now ready to get into get back to building my reputation in (fill in the blank).
That was way better than "I really like my job, but it's so far to drive every day."
Looking at it from the employers perspective, we're not hiring you to make your commute shorter. If that's the main reason, I'm sure someone will eventually hire you, but, unfortunately for you, it won't be with us.
We spend literally tens of thousands of dollars training and getting someone into a position. How foolish would be be to hire someone who might find an even closer job within the year?
I did that once in an interview. Interviewer kept wanting to know why I wanted to work for them but I had no other answer than to get the hell out of where I was. He gave up after the umpteenth time and accepted that I didn't care where I worked, that I wanted to move back to the city where he had a job opening and they could hire me or not.
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