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Your Hardest Interview Questions Answered: Get an offer every time! #cimadontaskmethat Presenter: Matt Craven, MD and Founder of The CV & Interview Advisors Who are we? #cimadontaskmethat Matt: Expert in Personal Branding, International

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Your Hardest Interview Questions Answered: Get an offer every time!

Presenter: Matt Craven, MD and Founder of The CV & Interview Advisors

#cimadontaskmethat

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Who are we?

  • Matt: Expert in Personal Branding, International Speaker, Career Professional
  • The CV & Interview Advisors: Experts in Personal Branding and Career

Development

  • Clients include Big 4 firms, leading Business Schools & many Chartered

Institutes #cimadontaskmethat

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Hardest question 1

Tell me about yourself?

  • Does this mean “give me your life story”?
  • Ice breaker
  • “I want to hear you speak”

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Hardest question 2

Give me an example of when you’ve handled conflict in the workplace!

  • Competency based question
  • Give an example
  • Use STAR
  • Make sure there’s a positive outcome
  • Refer to your career biography

#cimadontaskmethat

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Hardest question 3

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

  • Choose your example carefully
  • Be safe / benign
  • For example - lack of patience
  • Turn weakness into strength
  • Have a back-up answer

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Hardest question 4

What would be your plan, for your first 90 days in the job? Example:

  • Identify mentor / resources
  • Identity business culture
  • Identify key business agendas
  • Meet key stakeholders
  • Seek out required training / knowledge
  • Understand deliverables / KPIs (performance management)
  • Develop strategy
  • Define change management approach
  • Mobilise team in alignment with strategy / team

Note: be definite about timeframes / milestones.

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Hardest question 5

Do you have any questions for us?

  • Stay clear of Qs for the sake of Qs
  • Ask Qs throughout Interview
  • Reserve for objection handling
  • “Do you have any reservations about me?”

#cimadontaskmethat

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Your hardest questions

  • Challenge the coach
  • Questions from the audience/twitter feed

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Want some help?

  • What we do
  • Our special offer – www.cvandinterviewadvisors.co.uk/aicpaeventivc
  • Q&A
  • And the prize for the hardest interview question goes to…