Interviews Are Competitive
By Cord Harper, CEO and Founder of Endeavor Agency
Unlike other competitive undertakings, you rarely get to meet your competitor in person for a head to head match up when interviewing for a job. Most of the time, you don’t even know much about them or how many competitors you face. But you can lay subtle traps for them.
No, this isn’t like the mouse trap that causes bodily harm. Rather, it’s a competitive differentiator that other candidates will stumble right into and reinforce your value.
For example, if you are a sales leader you can lay the closing trap. A core skill sales professionals must have is the ability to close for a solid commitment. “I wouldn’t be a credible candidate for a sales leadership position if I didn’t ask you for the job. If a candidate for this position does not close for the job they should be eliminated from consideration. Are you prepared to make me the new VP of Sales?”
There are similar traps for other professions, too.
The interviewers will watch to see if the next candidate who interviews closes for the job. They might even reflect back on previous candidates to remember if they closed.
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Endeavor Agency is a leading executive career coaching company helping individual executives, VPs, senior managers, professionals, and recent college graduates find the jobs they truly want. Our additional resources, expertise, and career change specialists help our clients uncover more and better job opportunities than what they could access on their own.
Endeavor Agency helps rebrand clients to effectively communicate their value throughout the interview process and increase their odds dramatically of winning offers. Additionally, Endeavor Agency helps clients achieve better results in negotiating the terms of their employment agreements.
Endeavor Agency also provides executive coaching, outplacement services, and business consulting services. Endeavor can also help guide executives focused on the private equity and venture capital market segments.
