I recently got down to the last 2 candidates for a lucrative interim in-house role and the feedback was my rival came across as someone more likely to get stuck into an interim role. Does anyone have any advice on how to demonstrate this? My background is in-house and I feel I could learn from people with agency experience used to winning the trust of new clients very quickly. Thanks.

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They said your rival was somebody who’s going to be stuck in that role and they went with them? They weren’t looking for somebody to grow? Am I miss reading this?

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Hi - thanks for responding. Here in the UK "getting stuck in" can be translated as "hitting the ground running". It was an interim role and the job was a mix of strategic and tactical work. It's tricky as I wanted to demonstrate gravitas - that I could be a trusted advisor to support on big reputation issues - but was also be happy to roll up my sleeves and do hands-on stuff too. Maybe I didn't get that across as well as the other candidate.

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Dodged a bullet, but I know it hurts.

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