5,000+ Resumes Written,
20 Years Executive Recruitment,
10 Years Career Strategist AUS & NZ,
Former Senior Recruiter UK, AU & NZ,
5,000+ Resumes Written,
20 Years Executive Recruitment,
10 Years Career Strategist AUS & NZ,
Former Senior Recruiter UK, AU & NZ,
5,000+ Resumes Written,
20 Years Executive Recruitment,
10 Years Career Strategist AUS & NZ,
Former Senior Recruiter UK, AU & NZ,
The executive interview guide
At senior level, interviews are rarely lost on experience. They are lost on how that experience is explained under pressure. I sat on the hiring side for 20 years, and these guides cover what panels, boards and CEOs are really testing, with practical ways to answer the questions senior candidates find hardest.
CFO and finance interviews
Technical tests, scenarios and the questions finance panels ask.
- →"Tell Us About a Process You Improved": A Finance Interview Answer Guide
- →"Tell Us What You Think of Our Accounts": Critiquing a Company's Financials in Interview
- →CFO Interview Scenarios: Covenant Breach, Cash Squeeze and Profit Downgrade
- →Capital Allocation Interview Questions for CFOs
- →Cyber Incident on Your Watch: How CFOs Talk About It in Interview
- →Ethical Dilemma Interview Questions: When Someone Wants the Numbers Changed
- →Finance Director Interview Questions and Answers
- →Head of Finance Interview Questions
- →Interviewing With the Audit Committee Chair: What They Test
- →Management Accountant Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
- →Private Equity CFO Interview: How the Investment Team Assesses You
- →Risk Management Interview Questions for Finance Leaders
- →Second Interviews for Finance Roles: What Changes and How to Prepare
- →The CFO Technical Test: Modelling, Case Studies and Written Exercises
- →When You Inherit a Mess: Explaining a Restatement or Qualified Audit in Interview
Board, CEO and panel interviews
How each audience assesses you, including the informal meetings.
- →CEO Interview Questions: What Boards Ask
- →Executive Panel Interviews: How to Win Over Different Decision-Makers in the Same Room
- →Interviewing With the CEO Versus the Board: What Each Audience Is Assessing
- →Meeting Your Future Peers and Team: The Interview Meetings Candidates Underrate
- →Non-Executive Director Interview Questions and Answers
- →The Coffee That Is Still an Interview: Informal Meetings With CEOs and Chairs
The questions senior leaders get asked
Clear, honest answers to the common and the awkward questions.
- →"How Do You Manage Up?" Answering for a CEO or Board Audience
- →"Tell Me About a Time You Disagreed With Your Manager": Conflict Questions Explained
- →"Tell Me About a Time You Had to Exit a Senior Person"
- →"Tell Me About an Unpopular Decision You Made"
- →"What Are Your Strengths?" How to Answer at Any Level
- →"What Is Your Greatest Achievement?" Choosing the Story That Fits the Role
- →"What Will Your Referees Say About You?"
- →"Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?" How to Answer Honestly
- →"Why Should We Hire You?" How Senior Leaders Answer Without Overselling
- →Change Management Interview Questions: Showing You Bring People With You
- →Diversity and Inclusion Interview Questions for Senior Leaders
- →Executive Interview Questions and Answers: The Complete Guide
- →How to Answer "Tell Me About Yourself" in an Executive Interview Without Reciting Your Resume
- →How to Explain Being Dismissed in a Job Interview
- →How to Explain Leaving a Difficult Workplace at Senior Level
- →Stakeholder Management Interview Questions for Senior Leaders
- →Strategic Thinking Interview Questions: Proving You Think Past the Next Quarter
- →Team Leader Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
- →The Career History Interview: Walking Through Every Role Without Losing the Panel
- →Why STAR Answers Fall Flat at Executive Level (and What to Use Instead)
- →You Are Getting Executive Interviews but No Offers. What Is Going Wrong?