how do you balance the idea of checking the ego well in an interview scenario where you need to talk about yourself okay so good good question I I would say in that situation and that’s something that it’s not just an interview situation or you’re going to need to do that I mean you’re given with your your superiors you know throughout the course of your career whatever that may be you’re constantly interacting with people and you’ve got you’re going to want to make an impression so I think one of the best ways to do this is instead of you speaking about why you’re so awesome just state facts of let’s say accomplishments and let them speak for themselves in other words you know you wouldn’t want to say you know I am the best project manager in the entire world mmm right that’s not that sounds ego centric you know instead you’d say uh you know I got this a we had a 38 million dollar project got it done on time under budget ahead of schedule and when I got done with that when they moved me to another project that was off track and we got that one back on schedule and back on track as well so that that’s the kind of experience that I’ve had and I had loved to bring out here to this company right so you’re not you’re not you know there’s a hint of hey this is what I did I can get some stuff done but you’re not saying listen I’m better than the people you currently have so you should hire me because I’m the best but you don’t want to do that and you know so so yeah just build think about it you know before you go in how what what experience that you have represents the good qualities that you have so then you can say if they say you know how are you at meeting timelines you don’t say I am perfect or whatever late I’m don’t you just say you say you say well you know as far as meeting timelines here’s a bunch of projects that I got completed on time the only one that I missed was one that we had to rollback because whatever that we are actually showing a little bit more humility you’re saying hey here’s what happened you’re being logical about it and you know speaking of that I actually got a good question that’s sim or this one about what’s the best way to interview people to see if they can be in a leadership position and this is really hard this is really hard because it’s really hard to interviews and working I work with all kinds of different companies and everybody always says you know hey what’s the best way to interview and man I interviewed this guy and he seems so great or I interview this woman and she seemed incredible and her her paper looked great you know she looked great on paper and we hired her and she’s a disaster or he’s a disaster or whatever the case may be because because there’s people that are very good interviewers right I mean there’s people that can interview well they have the gift of gab they can they can be asked their way through anything and make themselves sound good so it can be really hard to identify someone’s good it is actually going to be fit for a leadership position or really any position so one of the things that that I always tell people to do is when you go into these when you want to ask interview questions ask them scenario-based questions and say okay here’s what’s going on you got these three people in your department and one of the people has come to you and said that they think there might be something illegal going on and with the other two what actions do you take and you know have a scenario built out that you can actually talk through and see where they go and see what their mindset is and see what they’re going to develop as a plan and see how they would actually plan so it’s a great way of figuring out how people think and then you know even that’s not a guarantee because there’s people that can can navigate those types of answers as well so you know one thing you can do is hire people on a little bit of a trial basis and that can be difficult in some situations where people are walking away from one job into another job I’m not going to do it on the 90-day trial basis but when you do have that opportunity it’s a good thing to do as well um but hey so going back to the first question about keeping your ego in check in an interview like I said be confident but not cocky and let the facts of your experience speak for your your abilities rather than beating your own chest yeah so it’s almost like I mean correct me if I’m wrong here so you you essentially even if you’re talking sup you just used simply state the fact that’s it you just state the fact don’t say your opinion about it no like because you’re sayin briefs say the facts yeah here’s what I did you know right we turned this project around we got it on chip on track and on budget and the despot type of that’s the type of experience that I have in those situations right just like how you’re saying even if someone had got like an award to be the best whatever favorite of the year the right filter you’re the best whatever of the year and then um like to say that in a factual way would be I was recognized as the best guy in or instead of saying I’m the best guy in the world to my award to prove it you know so it’s like you’re seeing the fact that you were recognized you know not so much the fact there was a very good way of doing it stick to the facts right just the fastest effects
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