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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