How should you answer the question "why did you leave your last job" especially if you were forced to leave because you didn't get along with your boss?

If you voluntarily left the company and are asked in an interview why you left your last job, you might approach it in several ways. You could simply tell the truth and briefly tell the interviewer that you and your supervisor had a disagreement and you decided it was in your best interest to leave the company and pursue other employment.

Alternatively, you could answer the question in more general terms and suggest that it was simply time to do something different and that you left the company to pursue alternative employment.

Either way if you can get several positive references from this employer, this will help your cause. I suspect you won't want to use your supervisor as a reference but hopefully you can utilize other people you used to work with who will positively speak of your experience and skills while employed at the company.

The reality is that we won't necessarily get along with every single person we work with and conflict sometimes occurs.

I have helped job searchers who got into a dispute with their boss and who left the company as a result. Any concern I had with this person was alleviated when I was able to get a good reference check from several of their former colleagues.

If you anticipate that a co

mpany might have a problem with why you left your previous employer, proactively offering references from this company to the interviewer can help prove that you have nothing to hide and that they have nothing to fear by employing you.

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