Senior creatives, it’s the last round of interviews. What do you ask the managing director (or the most executive person) in your interviews?

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What can I do in the first six months that will make you glad you hired me?

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What’s your vision for the agency? How are you operationalizing that? What keeps you up at night? Where do you expect to win against your competition? What’s the work you’re most proud of? What do you wish you had done? Margin or revenue—pick one.

As a senior creative, you should make them sell you as much as you sell them.

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Do you have any Grey Poupon?

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What is your company’s appetite for big ideas and novel thinking?

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How does your role help them out in their day to day and what could you do to help.

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