Good Reasons for Leaving Your Job
These reasons all work well because they are all legitimate reasons an employee can decide to move on to a new position.
- Career change
- Career growth
- Change in career path
- Company cut backs
- Company downsized
- Company went out of business
- Family circumstances
- Family reasons
- Flexible schedule
- Getting married
- Hours reduced
- Job was outsourced
- Good career opportunity
- Good reputation and opportunity at the new company
- Laid off
- Landed a higher paying job
- Limited growth at company
- Long commute
- Looking for a new challenge
- Needed a full-time position
- New challenge
- Not compatible with company goals
- Not enough hours
- Not enough work or challenge
- Offered a permanent position
- Personal reasons
- Position eliminated
- Position ended
- Relocating
- Reorganization or merger
- Retiring
- Seasonal position
- Seeking a challenge
- Seeking more responsibility
- Staying home to raise a family
- Summer job
- Temporary job
- Travel
- Went back to school
