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I recently interviewed with the president of a division and the one question they asked me was about the biggest challenge I had to overcome in my last role. They wanted a lot of detail, so prep for that. The rest of the interview was pretty conversational so luckily I had prepared questions to ask them, without the questions I had prepared I don’t think it would have been a long interview. Thankfully I got the role! I did a lot of research prior which helped, also outlined situational responses so I could make sure I was clear when explaining everything. I asked about revenue/financial health/goals, expanding into new markets, culture, biggest challenges they want to solve for immediately, and the impact they feel they’ve made. Chat GPT was a great help generating questions! Best of luck to you!!!
Im just here to say good luck! 🍀 What a blessing.
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
Be yourself! Authenticity goes a long way! I always think about ways that I want to represent my self in an interview. Know what you bring to the interview w facts vs fiction. I try to put my self in their shoes. If I were them what would I want to know from the person I’m hiring for that position. I also like to watch Ted talks for motivation as part of my prep to pump me up. Good luck!
President or not, they are a human being :-) Speak to them human to human. Typically, people at the highest levels want to know how you’ll be able to add value to the organization, so that they don’t have to worry about X division and focus on their own high-level tasks (their own job.)
Typically, they also are assessing you as a prospective team member and what you’re bringing to the existing team (will there be more work for them to manage personalities or will you make the existing team stronger, etc.)
Lastly, interviews at that level are more like a conversation rather than an interview. They trust that whatever you have put on your resume is true, they don’t need to go over it with you kind by line.
Having interviewed with a ton of c-levels myself (as an EA to CEO) and having coached c-levels, I’d say try to figure out what the organization’s challenges might be and how you would help them solve them by tapping into your experience/expertise; try to figure out the composition of the existing team (know their names, what they do, etc.)
Prepare deep, thought-provoking questions for the president (or anyone really) to show that you are already looking to solve the org’s challenges, offer high-level solutions or how you’d go about this or that and how you’re looking forward to work on this or that with X team member (that you’ve researched.)
You need to give them a visual of what it’s going to be like to have you as part of the team, so that they go in their mind, “Wow, what a delightful human already putting so much thought into XYZ. We need more top talent like that!”
And yes, as someone mentioned,
authenticity is key. You can’t be one person at an interview, and another person when working on a team. Plus, it’s scientifically proven that people pick up on inauthentic behavior (in a person’s voice, body language, facial microexpressions) — they might not know what feels off to them, they just feel something is off. So the more relaxed and yourself you can be, the (much) better you’ll do, i.e. the better impression/feeling they’ll get from you.
Good luck! ❤️
Great book to look up great questions:
Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others by Sobel, Andrew, Panas, Jerold https://a.co/d/8Zv3X3L