In the later stages of interview process for an in-house exec role for a small company. Went through the process directly with the company - now I’m competing with another person found by an exec search firm. Company wants me to talk tomorrow to the exec search firm too so they can evaluate my experience. Feeling a lot of self doubt as the other candidate is a senior leader and has done this before - whereas it’s more of a stretch role for me… any advice?!

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Does the exec search firm not have a huge conflict of interest? They won’t get paid if you get the job, right?

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Sorry - I realize that’s not reassuring. But on the bright side they’re either crazy biased and there’s no reason to try or they likely don’t know shit about your role (or else they’d be doing it themselves) and it’ll be a basic sanity check.

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