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Career Talk Job Search Queries 2 years ago
Posted on 16 Aug 2022, this text provides information on Job Search Queries related to Career Talk. Please note that while accuracy is prioritized, the data presented might not be entirely correct or up-to-date. This information is offered for general knowledge and informational purposes only, and should not be considered as a substitute for professional advice.
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I‘m currently doing a traineeship and I’m really unhappy with it, so much so that I’m considering to end it every day but I’m trying to pull through until I can end it prematurely while still getting the „degree“.
In Germany traineeships work a bit different than in most other countries. You get a tiny wage (usually less than half of minimum wage) while working full time and in return your company agrees to train you as well as let you go to school during work hours to learn the more theoretical parts of your job. After one is finished, it’s expected of trainees to stay with their company for at least some time to offset the „investment“ the company took into training them.
I am, however, not going to be able to stay at my current company for various reasons including personal differences with my boss, mental and physical health implications caused by my workplace, a strong dislike of the way the team works (not caring about security, not understanding version control, not writing any tests, giving trainees the feeling that they are worthless) and the fact that I don’t learn anything so I can’t grow.
My current plan is to start the job search as soon as I know when exactly my current employment will end so that I have the absolute minimum amount of time without a wage. When writing my CV it’s not going to look to great that I ended the employment right after my traineeship and if I’m invited to interviews, it’ll definitely be a question I have to answer. Right now I’m unsure how to handle that question.
My instinct is to be honest and (politely) talk shit about my old job, it might come off as me being difficult to work with so it might not be the greatest idea, so I’m considering to either only tell part of the truth (health implications for example) or lying.
What would be the best approach and if it is not telling the whole truth, which issues with my job can I disclose without hurting my chances of finding another one?
There are ways to be truthful while not being rude or insulting..
You don't seem to like the culture, or it isn't a good "cultural fit". What does that mean? I don't know, I just know that if I didn't like the work culture, or my personality didn't work well with the culture, I'd leave my job as well. People do it all the time, I love where I work now, I came to dislike where I worked in my previous job. Is my previous job a great company? Sure -- but it wasn't a great company for me for a lot of reasons, so I left.
The other answer mentions that potential employers can read between the lines, and there is a lot of truth to that. There are also a lot of ways to just say "It didn't work out for me, so I moved on." My suggestion would be to find areas that "didn't work out", which aren't negatives, and mention those as areas where you want to grow. "I wanted to learn XYZ technology, but it wasn't available." What are you bringing to the new employer that is a positive, instead of what are you leaving behind that is a negative.
What you don't want to do is say irrelevant things like "They didn't have free food, and I want to work at a start up which has free food." or "I'm vegan and all the free food had meat." That's "workplace culture" and every workplace has a culture.
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