How to answer why you left your job without badmouthing your old employer. Frame it as a deliberate choice: you took time to travel, care for family, or recharge. You're refreshed and ready now, not running from something bad.
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This is the most confident way to answer, why are you leaving your job when you already left and it was a toxic environment? This is how you sound super confident and like a job shopper. So you say that you were very fortunate. It sounds like this. I am at a point in my life where I am so fortunate to have the finances to be able to take time off from work. And my husband was recently laid off or wife or whatever. And we thought it would be a great time to take some time to travel. And so we did that. And now I'm back and I'm energized and I'm really excited to take on my next challenge. Okay, so now it's an advantage. You taking time off is an advantage to the company because you're refreshed, you're not burnt out, and you're positioning it as positive. Now it doesn't have to be travel. It could be, I took time to take care of my aging parents. I took time to spend the summer with my kids. Again, it's all about the pull. There's, there's something that in your life that's pulling you to do these things. It's your choice versus pushing. I'm getting away from a bad situation, which that can often taint your candidacy of them thinking, Oh, is this person the problem? Are they a victim mindset? So try it out.