Applications - Why You Left a Job - 
Words to Use
QUICK  CHECK ANSWERS:
1.  a) Positive words.
  b) Negative words.
  c) Negative.
2.  Student’s choice of 5 things to say on job appli -
cations.
3.  Student’s choice of 5 things not to say.
4.  a) What you have learned from the experience 
and how it will make you a better worker in the 
future.  b) Keep it brief; keep it honest; keep it 
positive.  
  c) So interviewer can go on to the next question.  
  d) Past supervisors, coworkers, or customers.  
  e) Interviewer may think that once hired, you 
will complain about new supervisors, cowork -
ers, and customers.  
5.  a) Use another supervisor’s name from com -
pany.  
  b) Please let you have a fresh start by not giving 
you a bad reference.  
  c) Student’s opinion.
6.  a) Student's opinion.  
  b) Reason for opinion.