everybody Don Georgevich here
job interview tools today I'm going to show
you how to answer interview questions if
you were fired from your last job and
I'm going to show you how to do it
without lying okay let's get started
okay so you were fired from your last
job so what I was fired - all right not
really okay maybe once but I was laid
off a lot - it's no big deal
what you really want to do when you
answer job interview questions about
being fired the key here is to really
keep your answer short you also it's
very important that you project the
right body language the right facial
expressions the right vocal tones I mean
all this is going to create a picture
for the interviewer and they're either
going to believe you or they're not
going to believe you so generally the
more honest you are the more believable
you're going to be and the shorter
answer you have the easier it's going to
be to to get it off your tongue so you
want to have you want to come up with a
simple one-liner that that sums up why
you were fired and I mean like you know
if you can't get it off your tongue in
like ten seconds or something like that
you know then it's probably just too
long and the more you talk the less
believable you're going to sound so you
want to make sure you have the right
vocal tones facial expressions and just
the right posture in general and you
just want to get in there and say you
know you know I was let go for a minor
company policy violation or you know I
was let go due to poor performance
something like that but don't lie I mean
if you lie the interviewers are just
going to smell it on you your voice is
going to start cracking and stuff like
that maybe you've got a bead of sweat
coming down your face maybe your eyes
are kind of shifting around so don't lie
tell the truth it's considered you know
telling them some kind of partial truth
I mean you know you don't have to tell
them exact
what happened I mean you know maybe you
know people caught sleeping on the job
or something like that you know maybe
you want to tell them you know that you
would let go for company policy
violation because you know you're not
allowed to sleep on the job
but telling you know somebody that you
were sleeping on the job is like saying
you know well you know I was fired for
sleeping on the job you know I'm
probably gonna sleep on the job here too
you know or you know I mean if you were
fired maybe you're smoking crack on the
job you don't want to go into an N if
you tell them you're smoking crack
they're going to think you get a smoke
crack over there too
you want to tell them that you're let go
for a company policy violation or
something like that but I mean if you're
smoking crack I mean you got other
issues anyway you know so you're
probably not even watching this but what
I'm really trying to drive home with you
here is to tell them some kind of
partial truth for the more serious
offenses I mean you know I mean people
you know people get duis you know they
get fired for them people steal from
companies and it doesn't mean they're
really bad you know but you know they
stole something so they got fired
you can't you really can't go into an
interview telling them you know hey I
was you know was embezzling money from
my last employer can I have a job here
that's just not gonna fly so that's
where you want you want to be honest for
the less severe offenses yeah like maybe
you stole some Patterson paper you know
come clean with it you know tell them
you know stuff like that you know maybe
you sent an email you know to one of
your colleagues and you know they didn't
like the tone of that email and maybe
they sent that you know their boss and
you got fired
you know petty stuff like that totally
just come clean with it and just tell
them what it was but more than anything
I really don't want you to lie like I
said interviewers are just going to
smell it and you're not going to get the
job anyway and and if you can't be
honest I mean at least partially honest
with the company that you want you know
to work for I mean they're going to
sense it they're going to see it in your
body language they're going to hear your
voice quivering and then I can hire you
anyway they're just not so if you can't
be honest with them we're partially on a
you have no business interviewing with
them anyway and that's all I have for
you today this is Don Georgevich with
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