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Is this a polished enough answer to, "Why do you want to leave?"
Starting to apply to jobs while holding my current position. There's other reasons I want to leave, but if I say those out loud in an interview, I'll be looked at negatively. (Just general true stuff we're not supposed to say out loud.) Below is my prepared response to interviewers asking, "Why do you want to leave?" It takes me one minute 45 seconds to say clearly. Do I sound like a cry-baby? I stripped out as much as I felt I could and left all emotion out. What would you think hearing this answer? (I've been an admin / engineer ten years if it helps.) I was hired as a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to take workload off my boss and run point on the CITY-NAME server environment. About a year in, the company eliminated its MSP, and I absorbed all of that work - saving the company $40K per year. Despite that significant increase in responsibility, I didn’t receive a salary adjustment, and after two years, I only got a 3% raise - the same standard increase given to everyone. Beyond that, my role has shifted heavily into running and managing desktop and frontline support, which I’m now handling company-wide alone. While I’ve always been willing to step up where needed, my background is in systems administration and infrastructure engineering - that’s what I worked hard to build my career around, and that’s where I want to focus and grow. Right now, I feel like my skill set is diminishing instead of developing, and I want to be in an environment that allows me to expand my expertise rather than dilute it. With all increases being based on an outdated salary due to this structural shift in my duties, there’s no real path to long-term alignment. At this point, I’m looking for a role where my skill set is fully utilized, my growth is supported, and my compensation reflects the work I’m doing.
Starting to apply to jobs while holding my current position. There's other reasons I want to leave, but if I say those out loud in an interview, I'll be looked at negatively. (Just general true stuff we're not supposed to say out loud.)
Below is my prepared response to interviewers asking, "Why do you want to leave?" It takes me one minute 45 seconds to say clearly. Do I sound like a cry-baby? I stripped out as much as I felt I could and left all emotion out. What would you think hearing this answer? (I've been an admin / engineer ten years if it helps.)
I was hired as a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to take workload off my boss and run point on the CITY-NAME server environment. About a year in, the company eliminated its MSP, and I absorbed all of that work - saving the company $40K per year. Despite that significant increase in responsibility, I didn’t receive a salary adjustment, and after two years, I only got a 3% raise - the same standard increase given to everyone.
Beyond that, my role has shifted heavily into running and managing desktop and frontline support, which I’m now handling company-wide alone. While I’ve always been willing to step up where needed, my background is in systems administration and infrastructure engineering - that’s what I worked hard to build my career around, and that’s where I want to focus and grow. Right now, I feel like my skill set is diminishing instead of developing, and I want to be in an environment that allows me to expand my expertise rather than dilute it.
With all increases being based on an outdated salary due to this structural shift in my duties, there’s no real path to long-term alignment. At this point, I’m looking for a role where my skill set is fully utilized, my growth is supported, and my compensation reflects the work I’m doing.
