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How to Flip an Interview in the First 5 Minutes
Episode 4990
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Description
Most career advice tells you to save your best questions for the end — but by then, the interviewer's impression is already set. This episode explores what happens when you flip the script entirely: taking control of turn-taking from the opening handshake, deploying Socratic questioning as a power move, and using the interview as an intelligence-gathering operation. We break down three concrete mechanisms for commanding the conversation, including the pre-mortem question that forces interviewers into defensive posture, and the scorched-earth techniques for extracting market intelligence when you've already decided the job isn't for you.
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