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Opportunities.
Potential.
Do your homework.
The more you understand about the company, the role and the people you're meeting, the more confident and relevant you'll be in the conversation.
Good research helps you move beyond generic answers and demonstrate that you understand what the business actually needs from the person it hires.
Research smarter →
The company
Understand its values, recent news, market position, competitors, growth story and culture.
The interviewer
Look at their background, responsibilities, time with the business and likely priorities.
The role
Understand why the position exists, the challenges it needs to solve and what success is likely to look like.
Be clear.
Be credible.
Be you.
Use the STAR framework to turn your experience into evidence. Keep the context concise, explain what you personally did and always make the result clear.
Situation
Set the scene. Give enough context for the interviewer to understand the challenge.
Task
Explain the responsibility, challenge or objective you needed to address.
Action
Describe what you personally did, the decisions you made and the skills you used.
Result
Finish with the outcome and quantify the impact wherever possible.
Different conversations.
Same opportunity.
Permanent and interim interviews can focus on different things. Understand what the interviewer needs to know and choose examples that prove you can deliver in that environment.
Explore the differences →
Permanent
- Long term potential
- Cultural and team fit
- Career progression
- Relationship building
- Sustainable commercial impact
Interim
- Ability to hit the ground running
- Adaptability
- Speed of learning
- Short term commercial impact
- Specialist expertise
Read the room before you're in it.
The same interview can feel very different depending on who is sitting opposite you. A Talent lead may assess motivation, culture and career history, while a functional leader may probe technical depth, commercial thinking and delivery.
Review your interviewer's background, understand their position in the business and ask your Consumer Additions consultant for useful context before you meet.