Description
- Employment History Integrity: Addressing leaving a firm after being fired in interviews.
- Honesty vs. Reputation: Exploring alternatives to admitting termination.
- Strategic Communication: Advising to redirect the conversation positively.
- Protecting Reputation: Suggesting ways to discuss departure without mentioning termination.
- Legal Analogies: Drawing parallels to an attorney's approach in presenting a case.
- Career Resilience: Acknowledging that overcoming firing is common and can be remedied.
- Recommendation: Encouraging discretion in discussing terminations for better outcomes.
- Decision-Making: Emphasizing personal choice in framing employment history.
Transcript:
Thank you, by the way, for all these questions, people are asking great questions. Is it dishonest to say you left a firm when you were fired in an interview? Probably, but a couple of things, if you are fired 99%, maybe 90, I would say 90 firms. Will never say you were fired. They just won't. They will, so they just won't do it.
But you can, whatever. But, so it's not, it's no one will ever know. Most of the times, sometimes they will. No one, one will ever. So that's the first thing. Now, you could possibly say you were fired if you want, but, but your job as an attorney. Is to argue and make good arguments and get people, this is the training you're supposed to do and get people on your side to believe or whatever you're trying to say.
So is it dishonest to say you were left there from when you're fired? I would say you say something else. You say there wasn't enough work. You say people were leaving. You say that they were. They, I was hired to do this and I didn't have enough of that. Or you say that, whatever, but you say other things that may not say you were fired, but you can poke holes in the firm that aren't about saying bad things about them while saving your reputation.
So that's your job as an attorney. Attorney go around, your client, you're representing someone did something illegal. You're not going to say they did something, oh, you're just going to poke at it a different way. You would change the conversation, you would point things at other people. So you don't ever want to say, if you want to say you're fired, you can't.
And you can see what happens. People do, almost all attorneys get fired at some point in their career, even the best ones. So it's not something that you could, you can fix it in the future and you'll get better. But I would just recommend most of the time not to say that you were fired. I would say something else that would be me.
It's up to you, but I would change the conversation or direct it. But yeah, I would be deciding.
