The Inbetweener: Is honesty always the best policy when it comes to boosting your career?

Whether the market has recovered depends on who you speak to. Real estate agents have told me that things are on the road to recovery and that there is money around, whereas bankers are a bit more reserved.

But it's safe to say that most job seekers have started getting more calls from recruiters about job becoming available.

I've received such phone calls myself but they came after I had accepted a job which restarted my career in a completely different direction.

As I begin my career in a new part of financial services, the thought of starting over again sometimes seem overwhelming. To get to where I was when the GFC hit will probably take at least five to eight years.

So when recruiters started getting in touch again, it made me question whether my career change was really the right decision. Did I want to burn the bridge of opportunity in my old area in order to begin a whole new working life?

However, I was honest with the headhunters. I told them about my changed circumstances and asked that they keep me in mind for future vacancies in my new job function. I haven't heard back from them since.

This made me wonder whether I should have lied to explore what opportunities now exist in the job function I have said good bye to. Was telling the truth the right thing to do, or did it just leave me out in the cold?

Honesty got me my current job but it also meant that I might have missed out on other, perhaps better, opportunities.

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