What are some common interview questions for an experienced tax senior 1 role? Do you all have any recommendations/advice on how to best be prepared?

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Best be prepared to answer what kind of clients you worked on and in what capacity. Also what you brought to the table.

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Idk how long you've been an S1 for but some recruiters might wonder if you've been doing only associate level work up until now when you're applying to a senior role. If you did acting senior work then it's good to highlight that you were already working at a senior level for a while and that you're capable of handling it over there.

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Tell me about a time where you coached a junior associate on some work project?
Have you took ownership or a project or part of it and what was your specific contribution?
Tell me about a disagreement you’ve had with a supervisor (manager) and how it was resolved?
What are some traits you like to see in your associates and are you coached them those traits if lacking?

There are also behavioral questions that you can find on google. I just nailed every interview that I had the last 3 weeks and got 3 offers. They key is to always answer with an example of something you’ve done or would’ve done. I had a google sheet with possible questions and answers to help me not blank during interviews (all done virtually).

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Thank you for this. This was really helpful

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