How do you prep for interviews ?
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Hi everyone 👋 Currently exploring a move into tech sales after working in commercial sales within the Premier League. My background is mainly sponsorship sales, strategic partnerships and high-value commercial negotiations, and I'm now looking at AE opportunities in SaaS - especially companies like Salesforce. Long term, my wife is American so we'd also love to eventually move to the US. Would love to connect with anyone who's made a similar move or has advice on breaking into the industry.
Should I take the exit opportunity? Current a Mgr 3 going into M4 year at B4 for FY27 (no promotion to Sr.Mgr.). FY26 salary was around $152K with a $7K bonus, hybrid 3x a week, independence restrictions. I have an offer for $160K w/ a 10% performance bonus, remote, no independence restrictions, and a title change to Sr. Mgr. Should i try to stick around for 1 more year for the promo or exit? Was hoping the base would be higher after 8 years at B4 but market is tough.
Trying to pivot out of family entertainment/events into more corporate project coordination work, and realizing the hardest part is getting people to re-contextualize the experience I already have. A lot of my work involved managing overlapping projects, vendors, logistics, client communication, operations, and fast-moving timelines, but I feel like the industry/title makes people assume the scale was smaller before they fully read the resume. How have others successfully bridged that gap?
I go over the job description. Prepare my answers to at least answer two main questions using the STAR method. If you interview enough you just reuse & apply it to that specific role.
I recommend listening to Emma Grede’s Podcast. Her episode on How to Nail Your Next Interview was quite fantastic and valuable. Good luck!
Getting a career coach for a few sessions can really boost your confidence for interviews. They'll help you figure out what questions might come up and how to give genuine answers that make you shine without overdoing it.
use Ai to help you structure your answers paste the job description in a strong AI tool and prompt it to come up with a list of possible questions, then prepare the answers to those. a lot of recruitment teams get questions to interview candidates using AI, so just do the same thing as a candidate
I would look up the person(s) who will be interviewing me on LinkedIn (their role, what they post about related to their role/company, past work) and write 2-3 very specific, tailored questions for them for the end of the interview. Also, seconding prepping to answer questions in the STAR format.