CIO ACTUALLY REPLIED TO ME!! Can I convert this meeting into a job/work experience opportunity?

[capaldij]

@usj2

Convincing your interviewer that you’re really enthusiastic and into his/her firm is like convincing an athlete that you’re really into his/her sports team. To be convinced, the athlete is going to at the very least expect the candidate to be able to name the current coach, main players, recent purchases, what their last few season performances were, and depending on how hardcore a fan they claim they are, expectations will go higher.

Bringing it back to the interview, know their market performance, key leaders and where they come from, key strengths (i.e. money makers), the background of your interviewer, what areas have they been thinking of going into lately, any recent strategic moves and the analysis behind it, so on. In the age of Google and LinkedIn this is a snap to research. If a candidate doesn’t know these things in an interview I normally assume the candidate carpet-bombed a load of companies until something stuck. Which doesn’t really matter from a practical standpoint, but you can’t let your interviewer think that.

Good luck!

All good advice. And I am almost done during the relevant research for this

[Supersadface]

@capaldij

@Supersadface

“If your boss asks you for a red umbrella, don’t bring him a blue one and explain how it’s going to keep him dry. Get him a red umbrella.” - Paul Sonkin, Hummingbird Value Fund.

I’ll be keeping this in mind during my meeting tomorrow

Awesome! Glad your hustle landed you an interview. Best of luck, and keep us posted!

[capaldij]

@Supersadface

@capaldij

@Supersadface

“If your boss asks you for a red umbrella, don’t bring him a blue one and explain how it’s going to keep him dry. Get him a red umbrella.” - Paul Sonkin, Hummingbird Value Fund.

I’ll be keeping this in mind during my meeting tomorrow

Awesome! Glad your hustle landed you an interview. Best of luck, and keep us posted!

Well it was an interesting meeting. The guy showed me various ways to revamp my CV so that it would be exactly what HR wanted to see based on my experience and to go into more detail on certain things. He also talked about some tricky questions I could expect to be asked.

Finally, he said that I should apply to their internship scheme about 6 times throughout the converstation (which I take as an encouraging sign) and that I should reference having met with him and that I have talked with the CIO previously. They normally just take interns into the grad scheme so this is why he told me just to apply to that instead.

All in all it went well. Thanks everyone for all the advice. Now hopefully my application will go well and I’ll have an interview in a few months

[usj2]

Sounds like a great meeting - congrats!

[Leroy2]

That was smart Man…Wishing u the best.