I sometimes get people who’ve been in the same company and worked their way up for 15 or 20 years, and guess what. They haven’t had an interview for 15 or 20 years. And interviews now are a little bit more challenging than they were then. Now there’s often three people on a panel as opposed to your friend from school, and they’re pretty tough. They money’s also bigger now.
When you did your last interview, you were a graduate, and it wasn’t a big risk to the company if they hired the wrong person. Now, if you’re either getting a big promotion internally or you’re moving from one company to another company, you’re probably at a very senior management level if not chief exec.
So when they are hiring, there is massive risk first in terms of they have to spend a fortune to the recruiting agency who brought you in. Then they only work out that it’s a mistake hire six months down the road. Then they have to fire you. There’s redundant. And the cost to the company is huge that actually that the fear of making a mistake at high level recruitment is immense.
So if you’re trying to swap from one company to another company or a big internal promotion, you need to reassure a lot of people. You need to reassure CFOs, HR directors, and chief execs and possibly even the chairman of the board or of a board above that.
There’s a whole bunch of people who have to buy into this really expensive and mission critical hire. So you’d better be on top of your game, and I can help you with that.