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Interview Tip | How to answer: Where do you see yourself in 5 years? | #AskFirebrand

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Channel: Aquent Australia · 2018 · Howto & Style

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In this video, Scott Harrison, Firebrand Talent Agent in Melbourne, discusses how to answer one of the most common questions you’ll get asked in a job interview “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”. See below for full transcript.

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I can almost guarantee that you’ll get asked this question in an interview and that question is “where do you see yourself in five years?”. Of course we all want to be lying on a beach drinking a mojito, but that’s obviously not  always the case. 

What you want to do is avoid the answer “I don’t know”, so come prepared. What they’re looking for is your intentions, what your motivations are, what you are looking to achieve from your career, and more specifically this role. 

A lot of people these days have fluidity — they like to move roles. So say for example you’re a designer and you want to move into research, that’s absolutely fine. If you’re an account manager and eventually you’d like to take charge of projects moving forwards — again that is absolutely fine. The key here is transparency and honesty. Because if you’re saying something different, they will pick up on it. 

Don’t concern yourself over answering what you’re going to do in one year, two years, three years, five years. Just to re-iterate that they’re just looking for what your motivations are and what your career intentions are.

And for me, you know, of course I’d like to be on the beach, but we’ll see how that goes hey!

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