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The vision question in the interview

“We passed on the candidate because he lacked vision.”

The CEO said. The technical qualifications were mastered by the candidate, but this was a leadership role. The company was looking for a professional who could inspire those around him or her. The company wanted a leader with a feel for the future. A candidate with vision will not get spooked because his eye was fixed on the horizon.

In the interview for a management role, candidate must convince the hiring manager that he is a person who thinks ahead and can see a month down the road, a quarter, a year, make predications and encourage others to find motivation to work together to achieve something wonderful. Expect to be tested on this.

The questions in an interview that test your vision might sound like:

-Where do you see yourself five years from now?

-What are your annual goals?

-what does your own personal financial plan look like?

-How long do you plan to be in this industry?

-Do you own your own home?

-What did you study in school?

-At what age did you realize you wanted to do what you are doing now?

-What is the master plan for your career?

-How often do you visit your goals?

-how old do you want to be when you retire?

-what aspirations in your career development will this position achieve for you?

Be prepared for these questions. Isn’t it exactly why you are there interviewing? Approach your answers tactically-it’s the best way to field the question.

Hiring manager: “Where do you see yourself five years from now?”

Break the answer down into chunks of time with a prepared set goal. When answering a question think in these three frames: People are comprised of mental, physical and spiritual properties. Try to touch on each aspect of that in your year to year breakdown response.

“I’m glad that you asked me that question Mr. Manager, because it’s what I want to talk about. Over the next year I will be finishing my degree with evening classes. If I stay at my current position that will give me the credentials I need for a potential promotion as well as an increase in pay. I plan to acheive the executive of the month six times in the next two years and build a new deck on my house.

Years three, four and five I plan to keep pace at the top level of performance in my industry and this should allow me to chair the Homeless Association Committee and do some work for others.”

Answering the vision question correctly could be the fulcrum in the interview that turns the meeting into a recruitment pitch from the hiring manager.

To be prepared: write the answer to that question five times in your notebook, the same one you keep all your interview notes in. When ten answers are written , read through them all, say each one out loud, make a few adjustments, then please read them out loud again.

Choose or create the paragraph about your five year plan that you like best, recite it out loud like a Shakespearian actor to a packed auditorium. Pull your cape behind you and enunciate your words with a grand gesture. Speak loud and project your voice to the audience members in the back row. Laugh all you want but if you do this, it will work. You will nail the question in a confident and clearly stated dialogue that will roll off your tongue like you just thought of it.

Here’s the crazy part; the more you do this exercise, the more clear your future becomes to you. You start visualizing it and therefore create it, like we do everything.

To show five years as a length of time that you have given great thought to; break it down in a two year time frame at first, and pepper it with education and preparation. State three goals that you have in focus and what actions you will be taking to achieve them. Give a statement about your professional development and achievements, personal life and charitable goals that feed the sprit.

Be ready to state where you will be professional y, educationally and where you will increase taking on responsibility and where you hope to be in your spiritual development. Highly evolved candidates are very active in the community and engaging with people on many levels.

Try again:

“Five years from now I will achieve my business goals of – — — while nurturing my training and development in the trumpet, home life and a position as a president in a service organization. I would like to complete my memoir and begin marketing it, and my wife and I are learning to tango, so I would like to perform in a show . But most of all I see myself working here, fully satisfied as an important part of the decision making team. I see myself performing to an exemplary level so as to achieve advancement within the ranks. My Hiring Manager, if I may return a question on that level: Is this future likely in your opinion?

Love the question of five years from now. Unleash your dream. The frontload: “I am so glad you asked me that question, because that is what I came here to discuss with you. Let me tell you what I think could happen for me here, and this will give you the opportunity to tell me if I’m off base.”

Then go into your dream dissertation of how you would

1. Perform at an exemplary level

2. Take on responsibility and respond to it correctly

3. Continue your education and development on your own ambition

4. Be promoted into management

5. Be invited to be a partner and share in the profits of the organization

These examples are hypothetical and you can fill in your own answers. Having a platform to form your answer gives you the power to practice answering it from a stance.

‘What if my vision doesn’t match theirs and they don’t want to hire me as a result?’ You may think. These types of doubts are deadly to your thinking and will inhibit the free flow of ideas and communication, guard your mind against. If the employer’s vision does not jive with yours, it’s an indication this position is not right for you. This is what your are here to determine.

Practice answering these questions in writing in your interview strategy notebook daily. Think about where you are going because we certainly all are traveling the way we face. Know thyself because in the interview, at the end of it, they will know you. So expect it and your confidence will soar into the room with you.

Jim Finucan is a career recruiter and the author of the book: Interview Strategy: The Next Move is Yours. Find it on Amazon.

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