Interview Role Play (Formal)

Interviewer: Hi Kaushik

Candidate: Hi

Interviewer: Great meeting you thank you for coming

Candidate: thank you I’m great, how are you

Interviewer: Iam doing great thank you have a seat please

Candidate: thank you

Interviewer: well thank you so much for coming excited to have you here

Candidate: my pleasure

Interviewer: excellent, well why don’t we start off you are telling me a little bit about yourself here

Candidate: yeah sure no problem and I have extensive experience in finance as well as sales and
marketing roles Iam a go getter I love working with people I’m always excited to learn and I recently
completed my MBA at siva sivani institute of management in kompally I began my career in 2014
as a financial analysis category during my time there I developed new sustainable forecast models
that allow for a better market analysis however after 2 years I decided it’s time to change my career
path in order to faster my personal growth I joined coca cola as sales strategist and worked with the
sales and marketing teams I promoted twice in the span of 18 months and spearheaded a new
packing strategy that is currently saving the company 101 million annually

Interviewer: oh wow

Candidate: later I went to complete MBA in cross functional area and roles as a major student

Interviewer: oh, great thank you very much for sharing that. Can you tell me time when you had a
complex problem to solve with a tight timeline? Tell me how you went about doing that what steps
did you take there

Candidate: that’s a good question, as a sales strategist at coca cola I use my communication and
analytical skills in combination with my strong initiative to spearhead an initiative to save the
company. That was preventing us from complete from competing on an industry wide scales using
us money with this in mind I pitched a strategy to the senior management team in order to persuade
them I analyse this new endeavour I created a report that investigated the implications of simplifying
the packaging on the both the brand at large and internal affairs this involved in that market
research as well as financial analysis this report has to be submitted with in a time frame of two
weeks so this involved meeting with the production team, sales and marketing teams, the financing
teams and in the end the new packet a new packaging strategy was accepted by the board and
implemented shortly after..

Interviewer: oh, that’s great to hear that. Wow. Can you tell me why you are the best candidate for
this position?

Candidate: three key reasons I take initiative I’m a good a good communicator and I’m vey
analytical. Well at both coca cola and Cadbury I was able to hone these communication skills
because both positions involved a lot of collaboration with different departments. I was also able to
demonstrate my analytical skills and past positions. I was also able to develop financing models with
the goal of improving overall efficiency in operations. In coca cola specifically I conducted market
research article in order to get a better sense of brand awareness. The result was substantial cost
savings finally having just received my MBA I’m fresh out of an environment that allow me to hone
transferable skills such as negotiation, conflict resolution, leadership and teamwork. I’m ready and
eager to apply myself to succeeding the snow ball.

Interviewer: excellent wow thanks you very much. As you know this is a new position. In your
opinion what are the keys to succeeding in this role

Candidate: in my opinion the key to succeeding in this position is having strong analytical skills and
initiative. I will make use of this position because what’s relevant and necessary to do a similar
situation this happened to me in both of my previous jobs at Cadbury and constructions constructed
two financial models during the time that I was there because I knew that they would benefit the
business in the long term. So, it is me to shape the role to an asset to the company.

Interviewer: thank you very much for helpful for me to get to know you better today.

So that concludes the interview and I would get back in a few weeks

Candidate: thank you.