Episode #001 – Getting started with Career Fitness

Once again, guys, my name is Mayuresh Shilotri, and I’m back with a new series – Career Fitness. This series is about interview preparation for mid-career professionals in technology, product, business or corporate. People who are in the experience bracket of 6 – 14 years. 

So if you’re just out of college, starting out, or looking for a first job, this may not be an ideal series you’ve watched, but you will find some value. 

Why am I the right person to be even speaking about Career Prep and Interview Preparation? 

Well, over the last nine years, I have conducted 1000+ interviews, not as a recruiter but as a co-founder of a company. I have been recruiting for my own company. So it is 100% ownership with very high diligence to select people at entry level laterally and even leadership hiring. So I have a perspective to add over here. People who eventually find success have certain things that stand out even at an interview stage; when they are interacting with various panel members across the interview process. So this is the interview prep series. 

The way we’re going to do this is – Will pose one question every video and answer it. 6 to 14 years is a fairly large spectrum; it can be very much we like early entrant to mid-management, to possibly someone who’s on the brink of a leadership kind of role. 

There will be answers that are coming. The intent is not to parrot out the same answers verbatim. The objective is to provide a framework. Also, understand why a certain question is asked in the first place. 

I speak from personal experience, from co-panellist, good HR consultants, in-house human resource professionals and my general interaction with many folks on either side of the table.