Hey Ambitious professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career in life you'll truly enjoy and in today's video I'm going to teach
you four key strategies on how to really succeed in a senior level interview so
when I say senior I mean anything that is manager and beyond
and as a career strategist I've been able to guide many professionals into
positions that have long-term growth potential and so if you're interested in
working with me one on one I can give you details about that at the end of
this video strategy number one is to start your answers by giving the lay of
the land when it comes to senior level interviews they're not looking for just
your basic technical skill sets as they would be in lower level positions you
have Excel fantastic but that's not what they care about
that's only one component of the overall answer what they're really looking for
is that you have the ability to describe your situation when you first arrived
when you first showed up be able to tell them how it was what it looks like how
inefficient things were how unproductive things were and give them a real clear
scene of the situation so you want to make sure that when you're describing
the scene that it's kind of the dark gloomy a situation that your first
describing so that they fully understand the before so that eventually they can
understand the after which I like to call the happily ever after ending take
them through your thought process your perspective and then take them to the
happily ever after ending strategy number two is learn to share your
philosophy now this strategy plays off of strategy
number one but it's really important which is why I'm mentioning it in more
detail when it comes to senior level interviews they really want to
understand how you as the leader of the organization was able to impact change
in your department or your company and the way to be able to do that is it goes
beyond just describing what steps you took anyone can take certain steps
anyone can come up with a plan and do this this and this but to add the real
color to it you have to bring in your philosophy on what made you come up with
those steps your beliefs your thought processes your feelings about it and
when you can start to incorporate that into your discussion with the
interviewer it's going to allow them to truly understand you your character and
you can play a role in their organization so it's gonna allow them to
really be able to picture you in the company especially if they agree with
your approach and they agree with your philosophy so for example let's say that
in the interview they ask you a question like how would you handle a team of
difficult employees the typical answer a lot of people give is they just dive
right into the steps well I would do this I would do that and you know try to
go through the whole series of steps which is not the way you want to answer
it instead you want to start it off with a bit of your philosophy you could
probably say something along the lines of when it comes to managing others my
philosophy is based on the idea that blank whatever insert your philosophy
insert your framework whatever it is that you believe when it comes to
managing difficult employees and then from there you can talk about the steps
you would implement doing this allows the interviewer to see the whole picture
it's not just one aspect series of steps or it's not just about the numbers and
metrics but it's about you as a leader and your ability to impact change
strategy number three is put the interviewer at ease when you meet
someone for the first time and you find that that person is easy to talk to
they're personable they're comfortable around you and you feel comfortable
around them chances are you're gonna be able to remember that person much better
than just another stranger that you've met because you actually enjoyed being
in their company the same goes for interviews so one thing that you want to
remember is that you know showing enthusiasm in an interview is great
absolutely but if it's not authentic if it's not it coming from a warm
comforting place the interviewer is going to sense that off of you and so
one way to be able to do this is first you have to make yourself comfortable if
you want the interviewer to feel at ease you need to make yourself feel at ease
first so for example you when you walk into the room what you can do is when
you're stretching out your hand to shake there's you want to imagine yourself
internally radiating this warm positive energy to that person you're looking at
them in the you're radiating this loving warm energy
to them and even though it sounds funny it actually does work because they're
gonna feel that energy from you they're gonna feel that warmth from you and then
what happens is because you feel at ease they're gonna feel at ease and because
you've given them this comfort this warm energy they're gonna feel it too when
you sit down and you guys are chatting and you're talking through the interview
having the conversation discussing your achievements all of those things it's
hopefully going to lead in a much more positive direction than it would if you
were to show up feeling extra nervous very stiff uncomfortable and just simply
not yourself and finally strategy number four is showcase your research and
insights about the organization at this senior level when they're asking about
what do you know about us of course they're wanting you to be able to
demonstrate that you've done some research about the company and you give
them basic details but truthfully they actually want to hear more than just
that they want you to be able to demonstrate that you understand where
the company is at from a business operations perspective especially if the
role that you're interviewing for is in that line so whether it's finance
marketing operations even IT that means looking at press releases that means
reading their financial statements any reports that you can find news articles
really get yourself immersed into understanding what are the current
events within that organization what projects are they undergoing right now
and be able to demonstrate how you can contribute so for example if you've
discovered that the company has recently gone through a major acquisition and
they're probably still in the midst of integrating their acquire E into their
overall organization and you have had experience in that area well then of
course bring it up talk about how you've contributed in that in that area in the
past and how you can see yourself contributing to them and telling them a
little bit about what steps would need to be implemented at this point moving
forward or what suggestions you have you know being able to converse with them at
that level is really going to impress them especially because the interviewers
at this stage are likely the P who are leading the organization like
head honcho kind of thing and if that's the case you want to be able to do your
research and be able to showcase that in a positive way so there you have it my
four key strategies on how to succeed in senior level interviews if you're an
experienced level professional you've been trying to go for interviews you've
not been successful in landing job offers and you find that it's time that
you need some professional advice feel free to reach up to me and we can
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