There are so many case-study books on the market for anyone vying for a job with a top brand-consulting firm such as McKinsey, Bain or Boston Consulting Group. These books often include prompts, provide guiding questions to help job candidates practice on their own, and share sample answers to again help a do-it-yourselfer. In light of this approach, I decided to apply the same methods to help any business executive tackle the behavioral questions that he’ll surely face when seeking a top role in a Fortune 500 firm anywhere in the world. However, rather than list hundreds of questions, I cherry-picked the ones you should focus on so that you can feel like you’ve covered enough ground to confidently work through any tough job-interview experience. Unlike your alternative, which is to Google-search interview questions that you think you’ll be asked (a process that can take hours to collect and analyze on your own), I decided to help you focus on the 27 questions that my clients (or as I like to call them, “corporate Olympians”) are hearing in the field.
This 50-page eBook has been a long time coming, counting after many years of coaching top-tier business executives for roles within Fortune 500 organizations where behavioral interview questions are highly leveraged to fill the most exclusive roles.
So what are “corporate Olympians”?
Corporate Olympians are the top 1% performers within a company.
They are on a list of top talent every year.
Decision-makers want to keep them.
Recruiters love to poach them.
You know you are one of them if your résumé is peppered with opportunities of increasing responsibilities in a handful of Fortune 500 organizations.
After years of job-interview coaching “corporate Olympians,” what I know to be true is that they always aim to put their best foot forward during job interviews.
It’s a little bit of an obsession—like Olympians, they aim to outdo themselves during every job-interview performance.
Corporate Olympians also rely on a playbook or a set of instructions on how to handle different scenarios—again, just like top athletes.
In comes THIS job-interview playbook.
This playbook is a compilation of the top 27 job-interview questions that have been asked of my clients during their Fortune 500 interviews—these are the questions that you NEED to be prepared to answer if you have higher job-search expectations this time around.
I go further to include the way that I have dissected each question to uncover precisely WHY someone would ask each query, along with HOW you should think about crafting your own answers to each and every single one of them.
I have even gone onto categorize each question under ones of the following headers to draw your attention to how other interviewers have either missed the mark or underestimated the very interview questions that I have found to be pivotal throughout my years of having trained middle managers all the way up the those going for and getting c-suite roles.
For example, each one of the 27 interview questions in this eBook fits into one of the following SIX categories:
Sticky questions where you must tread VERY lightly
Broad questions that you can answer in too MANY ways
Specific questions that are meant to CORNER you
Underestimated questions that are actually PIVOTAL
Run-of-the-mill questions that are answered in the most BORING ways
Time-bound questions that are set up as interview TRAPS
Expect useful frameworks for top performers.
Expect thoughtful sample interview answers for executives who love solving challenges.
Expect job-search insights and commentary around what is being asked for between the lines.
Expect to jog your memory around your greatest wins.
Expect to avoid feeling “overwhelmed” because you won’t need to research interview questions further.
Expect clarity around tough interview questions.
Expect suitable guidance for corporate Olympians—this is not for lowest-common-denominator professionals at all
This 50-page eBook has been a long time coming, counting after many years of coaching top-tier business executives for roles within Fortune 500 organizations where behavioral interview questions are highly leveraged to fill the most exclusive roles.
So what are “corporate Olympians”?
Corporate Olympians are the top 1% performers within a company.
They are on a list of top talent every year.
Decision-makers want to keep them.
Recruiters love to poach them.
You know you are one of them if your résumé is peppered with opportunities of increasing responsibilities in a handful of Fortune 500 organizations.
After years of job-interview coaching “corporate Olympians,” what I know to be true is that they always aim to put their best foot forward during job interviews.
It’s a little bit of an obsession—like Olympians, they aim to outdo themselves during every job-interview performance.
Corporate Olympians also rely on a playbook or a set of instructions on how to handle different scenarios—again, just like top athletes.
In comes THIS job-interview playbook.
This playbook is a compilation of the top 27 job-interview questions that have been asked of my clients during their Fortune 500 interviews—these are the questions that you NEED to be prepared to answer if you have higher job-search expectations this time around.
I go further to include the way that I have dissected each question to uncover precisely WHY someone would ask each query, along with HOW you should think about crafting your own answers to each and every single one of them.
I have even gone onto categorize each question under ones of the following headers to draw your attention to how other interviewers have either missed the mark or underestimated the very interview questions that I have found to be pivotal throughout my years of having trained middle managers all the way up the those going for and getting c-suite roles.
For example, each one of the 27 interview questions in this eBook fits into one of the following SIX categories:
Sticky questions where you must tread VERY lightly
Broad questions that you can answer in too MANY ways
Specific questions that are meant to CORNER you
Underestimated questions that are actually PIVOTAL
Run-of-the-mill questions that are answered in the most BORING ways
Time-bound questions that are set up as interview TRAPS
Expect useful frameworks for top performers.
Expect thoughtful sample interview answers for executives who love solving challenges.
Expect job-search insights and commentary around what is being asked for between the lines.
Expect to jog your memory around your greatest wins.
Expect to avoid feeling “overwhelmed” because you won’t need to research interview questions further.
Expect clarity around tough interview questions.
Expect suitable guidance for corporate Olympians—this is not for lowest-common-denominator professionals at all
