Build the honest, credible answer to "why are you leaving?", forward-looking, proportionate, and specific to the role you are pursuing.
How It Works
1
Where you are now
Current role, organization type, and how long you have been in it.
2
What you are moving toward
What you want next, and what specifically draws you to this role.
3
Your answer
The limitation in one sentence, built into something forward-looking and proportionate.
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TalentLNXExit Narrative Builder
Exit Narrative Builder
Answer five questions about your situation and what you are looking for. The builder will assemble a complete, spoken-voice response that opens with your direction, acknowledges the limitation, connects to the specific role, and closes with forward energy.
Your Situation
Your Departure Scenario
Select the scenario that most closely fits your situation. The narrative will be framed appropriately for it.
Outgrown the Role
The role is no longer the right size for where you are and the path forward does not exist in the current organization.
Culture or Leadership Shift
The organization or leadership has changed in a direction that no longer fits your working style or values.
Layoff or Role Elimination
The position was eliminated or restructured and the decision was the organization's.
Manager or Team Fit
The working relationship or team dynamic is not the right fit, and the honest version involves a person or a conflict.
What You Are Moving Toward
This is the core of your answer. The more specific and genuine this is, the stronger the narrative.
This is the pull, what the current role cannot give you that the next one can. Be specific, not generic.
Connect the answer back to the specific interview. This closes the loop from departure to destination.
One Honest Sentence About the Limitation
Without oversharing, what is the one true thing about the current situation that makes the move feel timely?
This will be incorporated in the middle of the answer, brief, factual, and not dwelling.
Build My Answer
Copied, read it aloud two or three times before your interview.
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