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HONESTY? EMPLOYABILITY?

  You know, I was thinking to myself, that someday soon, when I’m an employer of labour and/or when I’m at the level where I interview young minds for a job, I’d wait, after they’re done presenting themselves as the best fit, and ask   “…but it seems you are doing well at your current place, so, why do you want to leave?”  Or  “…but there’s news that your current place is a good place to work, so, why do you want to leave? I’m asking, not because I want to have my lick back, and judge them by it, like someone recently did me, but because I want to genuinely listen, and hear their unsaid words, like someone recently did me (been at the end of both barrels…) …’cos trust me, you might just see the glimmer disappear from your faces, a lowered tone, a crack in their voice. Not because they don’t know why they’re leaving, but how do they explain it to you without you branding them, judging them. Since it’s UNPROFESSIONAL and bad marketing of yourself to say “the ...