Interview · Screening
A first-round screen for director, head-of and executive hires. It covers strategic judgement, building and running teams of managers, accountability for results and influence across a leadership group. Follow-ups push for the leader's own decision, the numbers behind it and what happened afterwards.
Suits: Director, Head of department, Vice president, General manager, Chief operating officer
Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?
Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…
Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?
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