If You Had Your Life to Do Over…. | JobSearchTV.com
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses how to answer this very seductive question.
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Here’s 1 of those fun tough interview questions. This 1 actually is tough and involves a degree of theater on your part. Let me just read the question.
If you had your life to live over again, what one thing would you have to change?
What they’re trying to do is test for emotional intelligence. If your manager, if your director, if you’re in the C suite and someone is asking you this question, what they’re trying to do is see if you can reflect on the past. They are trying to see how they can connect with you.
Maybe by now know that stories are so critical to how someone presents themselves to an interview and other professional situations. This is the story opportunity. You can start off by answering the question, “Whew! That brings me back.” Then, in going back in time, you break eye contact and start looking down for a moment. Instead of looking at the person. In neurolinguistic programming people associate looking down with feeling. You want to demonstrate that you are feeling “stuff” at that moment.
Then you want to talk about a “miss” that you had. You don’t want to be talking about an affair that you had… No no no! No affair stories. You want to stick with a professional context. Try to stick with something where you just missed. Think about this question in advance because you want to tell something that basically says, “I really try to plan. I really try to be proactive. I’m also quick on my feet, but I like to plan in advance. Every once in a while I have been in situations that I just couldn’t anticipate and I miss. So, there was this time when…” The you tell a story about a time where you missed. You missed anticipating a detail and what the impact was and what you learned from it.
Like I said, along the way you break eye contact. You come back and look them in the eye. Then as you get to another feeling you look down again.
In doing this you are demonstrating what they perceive as sincerity, emotional intelligence and honesty.
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