What Do interviewers Want to Hear?
Before you get the interview, you have some sense of the culture of the company you’re interested in working for. So shade your answer to match it.
For example, if you want to work for a financial services company, you probably don’t want to portray yourself as a manager who makes decisions based on gut feelings rather than hard data. Similarly, if you’re auditioning to be an air traffic controller, it’s best not to admit that you like to sleep on things before making up your mind.
Think in terms of the interviewer’s main concerns:
Will you need to be analytical? Creative? Willing to call on the expertise of others?
If you are bucking for a management position, you’ll also want to take this opportunity to convince the interviewer that your relationship skills have made you management material . . . or at least set you on the way to achieving that goal.
You might say something like this:
Before you get the interview, you have some sense of the culture of the company you’re interested in working for. So shade your answer to match it.
For example, if you want to work for a financial services company, you probably don’t want to portray yourself as a manager who makes decisions based on gut feelings rather than hard data. Similarly, if you’re auditioning to be an air traffic controller, it’s best not to admit that you like to sleep on things before making up your mind.
Think in terms of the interviewer’s main concerns:
Will you need to be analytical? Creative? Willing to call on the expertise of others?
If you are bucking for a management position, you’ll also want to take this opportunity to convince the interviewer that your relationship skills have made you management material . . . or at least set you on the way to achieving that goal.
You might say something like this:
“When I’m faced with an important decision, I ask the advice of others. I try to consider everything. But ultimately, I’m the one who decides. I guess that’s why they say, ‘It’s lonely at the top.’The higher you go in management, the more responsibility you have and the more decisions you have to make by yourself.”Although this is a nice general answer, you may run into an interviewer who decides to probe to see if the “rubber meets the road,” following up with something like, “Okay, tell me about the last important decision you had to make, how you went about making it, and the results you achieved.” Can you match in particulars the nice general answer given above? Or do you inadvertently show you do things completely differently (better or worse) than you just said you did?
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