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Tempting....
So I have been trying for a while to get promoted with no luck. I have been told by countless people (many above me) that they cannot figure out why I am not getting these positions. Feedback from HR is that I am not doing well on the interview but I do great on assessments and have a great looking, quality resume. I just panic in the actual interview. I think the reason is that I always seem to get blind-sided by one of the early questions and no matter how many times I have practiced every other question, I am so flustered by the first one, I can't recover.
Today I stumbled upon the exact interviewer's guide that they would use for the position that I am ultimately trying to get. (I have changed directions since the last attempt so they would be different questions than before.) Do I print it out and just study that or wait and see what they throw at me during the actual interview? FWIW, the way I found the guide was by peeking at a meeting invite on someone else's calendar.
Re: Tempting....
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I agree with Leigha on this one. Nerves have a tendency to wipe out anything you've studied anyway, and I think mock interviews would be the better option since you're more prepared for any curveballs that might be thrown at you. Do you have a sense of where you need to improve in the interviews (e.g., talk too much or too little, don't mention the right things, general nervousness/lack of confidence that shows, say the wrong thing)? It might be helpful to target these specific things too when you practice.
It sounds like you have lots of good people on your side. When is your next interview?
They said that I don't appear confident enough and I don't give myself enough credit (we vs. me). It's hard because it is my personality to share the credit and try to promote the group. They also want answers in a clear Situation, Behavior, Outcome format with one of the 14 leadership characteristics highlighted (which one depends on the question so you have to pick the right one to highlight as well). That is just not a natural way of speaking for me which does not help me appear confident.
I am lucky that I have a lot of people willing to help but still frustrated by not moving up as quickly as I want. I was hired in another area and not given a choice to come to this dept. and can't move up because I don't have a degree in the right field. In addition to moving up, I want to move to a completely different pyramid so it complicates things a little bit. Not impossible, just extremely difficult.
Wow, that does sound tough--especially since you're switching paths. I imagine you'd have to be even "better" than other applicants with the "right" degree so that they feel justified in promoting you. I hate corporate culture. You may have already done this, but if you write down all your accomplishments from the past year, it may help to crystallize everything you've done so you can articulate areas where you truly have excelled and led the group to success. Even just changing wording of things you've done will probably help in fitting more with what they're looking for. Don't lose yourself in the process, though. I personally hate when people I'm interviewing robotically tell me what they think I want to hear without giving a sense of who they are.