Preparing for Interviews When You Are Already Senior
Senior interviews are not competency tests. They are judgement conversations, and they reward preparation of a very different kind.
Experienced leaders often prepare for the wrong interview. They rehearse achievements when the room is actually testing judgement, temperament, and fit with an existing leadership team.
The most useful preparation is a small set of well-structured narratives: a turnaround, a difficult people decision, a bet that did not pay off, and what changed in your thinking afterwards.
It also means arriving with a working hypothesis about the organisation's problem. Questions that show you have thought about their situation move you from candidate to peer.
We rehearse this properly — not scripts, but structure, pacing, and the discipline of answering the question that was actually asked.
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