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  2. Fired? How To Explain It In An Interview - AOL

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    In your short explanation, it's best to take responsibility, even if you skirt the specific details of what happened. Do not sound bitter No one wants to hire a bitter employee – or an employee ...

  3. Termination of employment - Wikipedia

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    A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...

  4. Dismissal (employment) - Wikipedia

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    While the main formal term for ending someone's employment is "dismissal", there are a number of colloquial or euphemistic expressions for the same action. "Firing" is a common colloquial term in the English language (particularly used in the U.S. and Canada), which may have originated in the 1910s at the National Cash Register Company. [2]

  5. Ask an Expert: How to Explain Being Fired From a Job - AOL

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  6. 35 Times People Got Fired In The Blink Of An Eye - AOL

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    According to Zety's Leaving a Job: Termination to Resignation 2023 Report, nearly 6 in 10 (58%) of employees are afraid of being fired. In fact, 54 percent are so terrified of that thought that ...

  7. Resignation - Wikipedia

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    Resignation is the formal act of leaving or quitting one's office or position. A resignation can occur when a person holding a position gained by election or appointment steps down, but leaving a position upon the expiration of a term, or choosing not to seek an additional term, is not considered resignation.

  8. 21 highly successful people who prove getting fired doesn't ...

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    AP Photo. In 1919, Disney was fired from one of his first animation jobs at the Kansas City Star newspaper because his editor felt he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas," according to "The ...

  9. Frictional unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Frictional unemployment is a form of unemployment reflecting the gap between someone voluntarily leaving a job and finding another. As such, it is sometimes called search unemployment, though it also includes gaps in employment when transferring from one job to another.