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ESLPod.com presents "Interview Questions Answered," episode two.
It's how well you did something or how badly you did something.
So, if you say, "I have a good track record at sales," or "I have a good track record in selling things," that means that I have a good history-I have done it successfully for a certain amount of time.
He also said that he "received positive employee evaluations each of the three years" he "worked there."
Notice that he also says how long he worked there: three years.
Employee evaluations are when your boss usually writes a paper-a report-on how good of a job you've been doing, or what his or her opinion is of how you have performed at your job-how you have done your job.
And, he says I "received positive employee evaluations," meaning my bosses liked my work.
He then, instead of stopping there, he then gives other reasons why he's looking for a new job that are more positive.
The fact that his job was restructured and eliminated, that is a neutral reason; not positive, not negative.
This, now, is a positive reason for him looking for a new job, he says leaving his company allowed him "to make a career change that" he "had been thinking about for some time," or for a long time.
A career change is the same as taking a new kind of job.
Your career, "career," is the kind of work that you do.
You could be a university professor.
You could be an auto mechanic.
You could be a lawyer.
All of these are different careers.
So, he's saying that he wants to have a different, or new, career and he's looking for something "that is more aligned with" his "career goals."
Your goals, "goals," are your objectives-what you are trying to accomplish.