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How to deflect interview question about most recent job
During interviews, I am often asked about my most recent role. Unfortunately it was somewhere where I learnt nothing, achieved nothing and despised every day I worked there. In contrast, the job I held before teached me a lot, and I would literally wake up on a Monday happy to go to work. My question is specifically, do I embellish the truth and talk about the earlier job as if it were my latest one, or be truthful and say that I would prefer to talk about my earlier experience rather than my most recent one. I really want to be honest, but at the same time I know that being negative about your most recent employment is not a good look.
During interviews, I am often asked about my most recent role. Unfortunately it was somewhere where I learnt nothing, achieved nothing and despised every day I worked there. In contrast, the job I held before teached me a lot, and I would literally wake up on a Monday happy to go to work.
My question is specifically, do I embellish the truth and talk about the earlier job as if it were my latest one, or be truthful and say that I would prefer to talk about my earlier experience rather than my most recent one.
I really want to be honest, but at the same time I know that being negative about your most recent employment is not a good look.
