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🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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If you want the role, you come in prepared. Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares tips on preparing for job interviews by understanding what employers are looking for in candidates and how to answer the top 10 common interview questions effectively. She also shares her experience as a hiring manager & CEO and gives us a unique perspective on the interview process.
Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.
Timestamps:
(2:35) - Answering the Top 6 interview questions about yourself
(11:32) - Do not speak negatively about your current employer
(12:39) - Be honest about your goals and how they align with the role and company
(15:19) - When asked "do you have any questions for me?", be specific
(17:20) - How to properly answer the question about your ideal salary
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0:00.0 | When you are presenting, why should they hire you and not somebody else? What I want you to think |
0:04.0 | about is unique pairings. Okay, so what is it that makes you different than others and what you do? |
0:11.7 | How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28. |
0:17.4 | Now I'm growing acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons I've |
0:22.3 | learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up and |
0:27.0 | let's build. A hiring mentor usually makes the decision as to whether or not they're going to hire |
0:33.7 | a person in the first 15 minutes of the interview. And this is actually where most people drop the ball. |
0:38.2 | They go through all the effort. |
0:39.5 | They go and fill out the application. |
0:40.8 | They research the company. |
0:41.8 | They submit the application. |
0:42.8 | They write a cover letter. |
0:43.6 | They do all this pre-work to get to the interview. |
0:46.5 | And then they're not thinking about how they're going to answer the questions. This isn't to give you some scripts in terms of, I want you to regurgitate this on your interview. |
0:54.8 | This is to give you the framework to understand what is the employer actually asking when they ask you these top 10 questions. |
1:02.3 | As a hiring manager and a CEO, I've done thousands of interviews and I've interviewed thousands of people. |
1:07.5 | And so I can tell you exactly what an employer is looking for. |
1:10.0 | But on the other side, I was an employee for years before I had my own business, so I know tell you exactly what an employer is looking for. But on the other side, |
1:11.0 | I was an employee for years before I had my own business, so I know what it's like to be on the |
1:15.0 | other side of the table. And so I feel like I have a unique perspective that I can bring together |
1:18.6 | to present to you these answers. So what I've done is I compiled the top 10 questions that I |
1:23.5 | see people ask during interviews, and then I put together what I have seen to be the best responses to them and how to think through these in general. |
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