Often asked of sales people, "What would you do if you had a lot of money" is designed to find out how high or low you've set the bar.
You could answer like one junior person I interviewed many years ago, "I would buy a used car and fix it up. (No I didn't hire him).
You can speak of helping your aging parents, extensive travel and other mature things.
You need to also put a big smile on your face and include something like buying a Jaguar, moving to this townhouse in Manhattan you saw a few years ago in the 60's and Park Avenue, or some other flight of fancy.
This is becausae Sales managers want to hire people with high goals and measures of attainment that will suggest that they will never be satisfied until they . . . (buy the townhouse, purchse the car, etc.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a practicing psychotherapist and is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues.
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