Situational Questions – I need more jobs

Backfill – A candidate told you (yesterday) that they had resigned from their current job at the beginning of this week and are now serving a four week notice whilst WFH.

They would not tell you, at this stage, where they were joining but you know:

• The business they are leaving
• The name of their line manager
• Their skill set (and it looks good – a hard person to potentially replace)
• The salary they’ve been earning

How will you approach this call to their manager? What will you share that you know and what will be your weapon of choice to open the call?

You’ve seen in UK Tech news that a digital marketing agency has received £30m in funding. The firm is 8 years old and has sales revenues of £15.4m and have 2300 digital experts working in PPC, SEO and digital marketing on behalf of a broad client portfolio. An innovative business who are disrupting the sector with their business model, operating from multiple cities internationally.

You have identified the two co-founders – one operates as CEO the other as MD.

What is going to be your approach to this and what do you want to achieve?

Linkedin job advert. You’ve seen an advert for a company that you’ve tried a number of times to get in with, without success (so far). The advert is core to your market and you know you’ll have some good contenders. This is the third time you’ve seen them go to market for this profile of person in the last 12 months. The advert has been running for 5 days and has had 128 views and 21 applications via linkedin. The advert has been posted by the HR team who have always told you that they prefer to hire directly.

You have got the contact details for:

• HR Manager
• Relevant Department Head
• MD

Who are you going to want to talk to and how will you engineer a conversation with them?

What will you do if you fail to get hold of them on the phone OR hear the same old story of “talk to HR”