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Job Interview Question 46
If you were the CEO of this company, what are the top 2 things you
would do?
This is another situational interview question, or behavioral interview question, that delves into not
just how you think and how you approach problems, but also into how well you’ve prepared for this
interview.
How well do you know this company?
Have you done your homework?
Do your goals and thinking line up with theirs?
They won’t want to hear that you would come in with big, sweeping changes to radically transform
everything—for one, that’s threatening, and two, if you thought the company was that off-track, why
would you want to work there?
They also don’t want to hear that everything is great and you would change or improve nothing—if
that were so, they why would they need you?
If you have done your homework and looked the company up in terms of:
news releases
LinkedIn pages or discussions
Facebook pages
contacting current or previous employees
Then, you would have some idea of the direction the company is going, and you could contribute an
idea or comment to that.
If this question is coming after some discussion already in the interview, you could work that into
your answer:
