Now i am facing a problem in other interviews in answering the questions as “WHY U LEFT THE JOB”.Should i say the right ans..?

Used to laugh and say at least I was an equal opportunity displeaser. The minister was in the choir, not a musician by any means, and would constantly ride me about the complainers. “Why didn’t you do a sectional last rehearsal?” “I don’t like this piece.”

I came home one day in a great mood, and there was an e mail from him asking, again, why I didn’t do a sectional. Enough! I had gone in that week running a fever and just barely got through rehearsal without passing out, let alone a “sectional”.

I wrote back “I quit.”

Then I went “Holy cow! Did I just do that???”

I had been staying in fear, so afraid to do without steady income. I felt like it was a church, I should be able to create a positive environment.

I asked God for a sign and within hours had three private students needing rehearsal night and coming up to the same pay I’d been getting for wed. night and Sunday morning.

I was losing my love of singing, my love of directing, my love of music, my self confidence.

It’s like being plucked, one feather at a time and before you know it, you can’t fly!!

Turns out the same complainers had chased several people away from the church. I got a lot of support from people there about my decision.

It was sad. But, boy, I love my work and that is a gift. I’m glad I didn’t let that love go out of fear.

Don’t wait for the people at the ad agency, unless you have a firm offer. If you do, three weeks is a very short time to wait. If you don’t, you have to wonder whether they are hedging their bets or unable to make decisions. Whatever the reason, they are not being straight with you. That might be a bad sign. Move on and start planning your life. In the meantime if they call, and you still think it is the best opportunity for you, no harm done.

The best part about your story is your age: young enough to take control of your life. You say you love strategic planning. This is your opportunity to tackle the most important case problem that will ever come your way: Your life. You have to become your own CEO.

You need to personally brand yourself. Create Brand You. Your brand is the promise of value that others will receive. It includes everything about you: your values, your aspirations, your goals, your talents, your image, your successes, how others perceive you. If you don’t brand yourself, others will.

Why brand yourself? To stand out from the crowd. To be true to your core. To take control of your life. To work at what you love. To be the best you can be. To create options. To create trust.

These days there is so much uncertainty in the work place – here today, gone tomorrow – and a dysfunctional job market of thousands of real job hunters and job speculators filling databanks with cookie cutter résumés never to be seen again — a nightmare for those who don’t differentiate themselves. You have to think of yourself as your own CEO, not as an employee of Company A or B. You owe your loyalty to you, not to your next boss.

How do you brand yourself?

Step 1: Decide what you want to do and be. Focus on your passions. What do you love doing? You say you love strategic planning. Which careers involve strategic planning and project management? Do you love everything else about advertising? Decide on a career that revolves around your passions and fits your temperament. Become the very best at that career.

Step 2: Write down your Future Picture: your life twenty years from now (your career, your finances, your family, your interests, your community involvement, etc.) It is important to write this down and refer to it often. Groove it into your brain. Fine tune it when necessary.

Step 3: Create goals that will make the categories in your Future Picture come true. Work backwards. Turn those twenty-year goals into medium-term goals, short-term goals and finally daily goals.

Step 4: Brand yourself around those goals. How?

Network, network and network, so that the next time you need to change jobs, you can call one of the CEO’s you know, rather than waste time tweaking your cookie cutter résumé hundreds of times.

Start making yourself the best at what you have decided to be, so that people turn to you for your expertise. Don’t wait for any employers to send you on their courses; take extra courses yourself. In your spare time speak to groups or write about what you do. Get yourself out there and known.

Give yourself a makeover so that your appearance reflects what you are and what you do.

At work become known for being the best of your brand; the expert; the point man.

Work on inter personal relationships, so that you can handle mediocre managers, be the manager, or walk away and join the effective managers at the firm across the street, with whom you have spent time networking and developing friendships.

If you have to go back to university to achieve your goals, then work that plan into your goals. Time flies by; before you know it, you will have your dream degree.

Etc., etc.

You get the drift. Take control of your life. Be proactive. Not reactive. Become the CEO of you. In an uncertain world, that’s the only way to reduce uncertainty and create peace of mind.