Hi folks,

I've got a couple interviews coming this week and I'm fairly confident I'll be asked why I'm leaving my current position so soon after accepting it - I've been where I am for six months, previously I've stayed at jobs for 3-4 years each.

I want to be diplomatic and not trash my current employer, since that's a bad look, but I also want to be specific in detailing the reasons that will cause me to leave a job so quickly.

So here's the situation - in July I started a job as a "Senior Relationship Banker." On paper, the job is one I've had for about six years and am pretty good at - I open new bank accounts for consumers and businesses, do consumer and business loans, and cross-sell other bank products (credit cards, mortgages, financial advisory services, etc) to customers who need them.

In practice, however, I spend most of my time as a teller at an underperforming, understaffed branch. I received absolutely no training on any of my job functions or products, and six months later I still don't have access to many of my bank's core systems. When I am not on the teller line, I'm expected to make cold calls, which I was specifically and repeatedly told during the interview process that I would not be expected to do, which I said was good because it's not something I have experience doing. My sales goals, which about 40% of my compensation is tied to, are unrealistic, and as a result the sales environment is incredibly high pressure, bordering on unethical. The customers are generally deeply unpleasant and my manager is, to put it nicely, as dumb as a brick and constantly throws my co-workers and I under the bus. It's so bad that I'm trying to get out of retail/branch banking entirely, and am only applying to commercial banks and back office/wealth management positions.

The diplomatic answer is basically that the job I was hired to do and the job that I actually do are incredibly different, but I want to be more specific than that so that everyone knows what they're getting into. So, how do I approach this?

Thanks in advance!