Start with the motivation. Identify the question behind the question. Tailor your responses to the audience. And don't forget to frame your case in the final stages!
It's critical to tailor your message to your audience. What's important to them? What are they hoping to achieve? and how can you add value? Once you connect the dots between what they want and need and what you offer, you have their attention!
Do you have so advice how to probe for what's important for a particular interviewer?
I don't have a ton of experience with this, but it happened to me once that I was trying to spin the conversation around and ask what's important to them and what would make the new hire successful. And I got very vague answers. My first question was about the company, so for the second one, I asked concretely what would make the interviewer's life easier (it was the CEO of the company). Again, a rather generic answer.
So I wonder, did I fail to set the stage for such a discussion? Could have I followed up somehow to nudge her further into giving a meaningful answer? Is it a red flag that there was no concrete answer from the founder of the company?
It's critical to tailor your message to your audience. What's important to them? What are they hoping to achieve? and how can you add value? Once you connect the dots between what they want and need and what you offer, you have their attention!
Do you have so advice how to probe for what's important for a particular interviewer?
I don't have a ton of experience with this, but it happened to me once that I was trying to spin the conversation around and ask what's important to them and what would make the new hire successful. And I got very vague answers. My first question was about the company, so for the second one, I asked concretely what would make the interviewer's life easier (it was the CEO of the company). Again, a rather generic answer.
So I wonder, did I fail to set the stage for such a discussion? Could have I followed up somehow to nudge her further into giving a meaningful answer? Is it a red flag that there was no concrete answer from the founder of the company?