Falu79! Any pointers for me to get ready for an SVP level interview this
Friday? This is the sixth onsite of last level of on-site interviews and I really
mean obviously you want to succeed any suggestions what I would do Falu is I
would make sure that although you are I don't know that you are a senior
executive however it makes no difference I would watch my video on executive
level interviews twelve steps to success dare I say it might be the best video
I've ever created it's about 20 minutes or so I was fast
and sharp and those tips are really good and it will help anybody anybody and any
level but what it will also do is it will get you thinking about the mind of
the executive and it will it will get you thinking about all the things that
you need to do to impress a senior person so it doesn't matter if you're a
junior person you could still watch it if you can do what I tell you to do in
that video you will smoke the interview the other thing is the most important
thing about interviewing if you are a junior level with a senior person is the
questions that you ask that person so I'm much more focused on the questions
you ask me and because when you ask me a question it tells me about your
communication skills it tells me about your mindset it tells me whether you're
thoughtful it tells me whether you're smart it tells me what you care about I
could go on and on and on so if I'm a senior vice president and I'm
interviewing a junior or mid-level person I would give them the whole hour
to ask me questions that's it and because my view there would be while
everybody else that you interviewed with should damn well have assessed your
domain skills so I'm gonna I'm gonna help sell you if you're talking to me
I'm probably gonna spend more of my time cell
the easiest way for me to do that is to answer your questions and I can I can
ascertain who you are and what you're about by the wit by what you ask me and
the way you ask me this so your tip on the questions side is if okay this book
this book here so this has got 39 questions in it when you get this book
you also get an e-book called how to interview the employer 75 great
questions to ask before you take any job I took what was in this book and we
augmented it with more questions so you've got even a bigger arsenal of
things to think about in those 75 questions there's a ton that are senior
level that are corporate level that you would want to ask the big bosses so
you're not gonna get you said you got this on Friday you're not gonna get this
book by Friday maybe you have this already but it doesn't matter if you
order it now you get all the digital stuff the e-book the audiobook and the
e-book I just mentioned immediately like once you hit the button so grab that get
the booklet and then look through that that's when you're at that when you're
at that level you're I don't even can you should have gotten already all the
data for everybody you go through an interview like this by the time you get
to the big guys and gals you should have gotten everything you needed already
okay so you are not you are not I would not be worried at this point okay this
guy's not the one making the decision all right
the top guy or gal is not making the decision the decisions are even made
this is a formality so now this person should be doing one of a couple things
either closing you or or giving his or her insight if it's close with these
others but trust me when I tell you I can tell a lot more about you by the
questions you ask me so I would be focused on that I would be focused on
you're not gonna be telling me about yourself
tell me about a time when you're not getting any of those questions and if
you are that's a pretty sad interviewing process alright so I hope that helps you
but take those assets and watch that video watch that video that the
executive-level interviewing one that I have it's about 20 minutes
you