Interviewing a strategist for my account (not in my domain and wouldn’t report to me). What kinds of questions do I ask?

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Culture/value-based. You're going to want someone who works well with you and your team. Strategists will ask the questions about competence/experience.

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You could ask about how they’ve worked with account in the past. Like get a sense of how collaborative they are

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What is it you say you’d do here?

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Maybe ask if they’ve had an experience where the clients didn’t give them a whole lot of initial direction to help write a brief (I.e. “we’ll look to you to tell us where to start”), and how did they go about coming up with a reasonable/ realistic recommendation on how to get the information they needed.

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