| Welcome. If we were face to face, I would inquire about what you do best, what you would most like to achieve, the challenges involved, and whether you have had any outplacement coaching.
I understand that you are in transition.
If you are the recipient of a severance package, you have been awarded a scholarship to reevaluate your life and career. However, you may be experiencing a sense of loss and some tension at home. Your spouse may view you with less respect, and there may be some genuine concern about the loss of health benefits.
This may be the first time in years that you have reflected on the meaning of your life. You may be asking questions like: “Do I really want to keep working 80 hours a week? Do I want to allocate more time for my family and friends? Do I want to change my career? Do I want to stick with corporate America, go solo, or join a mid-size consulting firm? What are my most important needs? What’s working for me right now? What do I really want to do and how can I go about it?”
You might be employed in a full time position and considering a career change. You may be negotiating a position with a new company or you may have already committed to a new position and have some time on your hands until you resume full employment.
Have you defined your optimum career direction and the remuneration you wish to achieve? With Optimal Thinking, you will ask the best questions to invite the best solutions. You will position yourself on the optimal track, pursue the best ends by the best means, and make the most of the hands you are dealt.
Here are some Optimal questions for your transition:
 What are the most important criteria for my next position?
What are my greatest strengths?
How can I best leverage my strengths to achieve what I want?
How I can best leverage my contacts?
Which actions must I take to give myself the best chance of landing in the right position?
Here's how you might use Optimal Thinking prior to your next interview. Consider these questions:
What do you know about the company’s history, current situation and culture?
How can you best determine where the organization is headed in the next five years?
What do you know about the person who will be interviewing you?
How can you best prepare to achieve the optimum result?
How can you employ your knowledge, skills and experience to be the candidate of choice?
An optimal interview follows a precise five-step format.
1. Ice breaker and warm up
2. Empower the interviewer to acknowledge your strengths
3. Uncover your obstacles, then provide your best options
4. Determine where you stand
5. Reaffirm your value, assert your uniqueness, and optimize!
Throughout the interview, keep the following question in mind:
What's the best result I can achieve in this communication right now?
Keep in mind, you must be fully prepared to negotiate your optimal income package.
You are most welcome to participate in our short-term executive coaching and role play your optimal career interview with our five-step interview optimization roadmap. We have 23 years experience in outplacement coaching, and we are here for you.
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