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For a middle management job at the Uni, Associate Head of School.
There's going to be a 30 minute 'task' that they haven't yet told us what it is. Perfectly comfortable with the I/V and presentation, feel very comfortable with that, but the task is giving me palpitations.
Just be you. You wouldn’t be there if you didn’t have something to offer.
Concentrate on interview and presentation. You are clearly confident with those. Play to your strengths, remember the rules of the game and ‘own them’. The unknown? It’ll be just as unknown to anyone else they’re interviewing and if you weren’t capable they wouldn’t be interviewing you in the first place.
Good luck? Nah, you’ll be fine. Go for it!!
And always remember if they don’t select you it’s their loss. A little arrogance/confidence is a good thing.
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Big Interview Tomorrow on 03:30 - Oct 14 with 1803 views
I've had that before, its pretty unnerving not knowing what the task is going to look like. I had a technical Excel one once where I had to do a few things across a few different tabs with some data to populate a P&L, and then present back what I thought of the output / observations on the numbers. Obviously the technical bits had to be done right, but the feeding back bit I painted with a very broad brush, literally a handful of bullet points and highlighted a few of the lines and voiced over it with some thoughts / hypothesis / opportunity areas. I also highlighted what other information I might want to see 'in the real world' to validate some of the thinking. Remember they won't be expecting perfection, but be more interested in your thought process and approach to it.
As others have said take a couple of minutes to plan and get your head straight before you jump into it and go off on random tangents.
Good luck Chelters.
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Big Interview Tomorrow on 11:01 - Oct 14 with 1417 views
You'll be fine CB. Remember all candidates will be in the same boat. Normally if they spring something on you rather then let you prep they want to test how quickly you think, having read many posts/replies from you over tbe years I would be pretty confident in your shoes
You need to have a change of mindset, and see this as a positive, in order to perform your best. Maybe the following thoughts will help?
If the task is to be a valuable part of the interview process then it should be an utterly appropriate test of some of the relevant skills, and your ability to utilise them under pressure.
If you have the relevant skills then you just need to execute them.
You have the relevant skills, and the experience that means that you can draw on them.
This task is just to weed out the other guys. Loads of people can talk a good game and bullsheet through a presentation. They are going to come unstuck when they are given a task that actually calls on decision making and willingness to get on with stuff rather than theorising.
Yay for the task!
It's your secret weapon against some oily "all charm no substance" outsider coming in above you.
As well as your approach to the task, and performance in it, they will be looking for consistency between what you have said about yourself, your philosophy and vision, approach to work etc during the interview, and how actually go about the task itself.
Also, they may well give a task that can't possibly be completed in 30 minutes to see how you handled the stress. It's better to have a plan outlined and work through it, and show what your next steps would be, given the task in a normal working weeks than to flap together any old sheet to "complete the task".
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Big Interview Tomorrow on 17:22 - Oct 14 with 973 views
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