How and why you leave a job matters, especially to a potential employer whos considering hiring you.

Even if they arent looking for red flags, theyll still know them when they see them.

Even if you have great reasons for wanting a career change, its still important to frame it correctly.

A woman climbs on the top of cubicles while trying to escape the office.

You Want More of a Challenge

Ambition is almost always a good thing at work.

You Dont Find the Work Meaningful

You dont need to love what you do to be good at it.

7 Ways to Make Money if You Hate People

Do you avoid people too?

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Enough small talk.Here are some waysto earn extra cash, without all of the social stuff.

You Dont Feel Valued

Its one thing to feel like your ideas and efforts are undervalued.

Its another thing to feel completely disrespected and marginalized at work because it could hold back your career growth.

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Other people are never quite sure, even after being in an industry for years.

You Want an Opportunity to Advance Your Career

Youve put in your time at your current employer.

You Want a Better Work-Life Balance

If they genuinely value their workforce, prospective employers will understand.

If not, its likely because employees there are expected to focus much more on work than life.

You Have Personal Reasons

Some things in our lives are off-limits for our coworkers.

You Dont Fit the Company culture

You dont need to fit in to get along with your co-workers.

Heres how you’re free to frame the difficult reasons.

You Cant Get Along with Your Coworkers

What did human resources tell you?

What did you do to mitigate conflicts?

Most jobs have their dull moments, after all.

Why not consider applying for a new role in your company?

Theyll want to know how long youll work for them before you expect a promotion.

Its important to leave your current job on the best terms possible.

Be sure to give your current employer plenty of notice before making them your former employer.

Its still standard to give your last job at least two weeks notice before resigning.

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(Can you sense my millennial sarcasm there?)

You know which ones were talking about: rent, utilities, cell phone bill, insurance, groceries…