The first time I encountered that question was in a job interview 🙂 I came across it quite a few time since then and it's one headhunters seem to like as well ( as if my head was for sale). When coaching a trainee I use it too, but I enrich it a bit : " How do you see yourself and what would like to have achieved 10 years from now? And what would you like to have avoided ?". It's all about development 😅 So what about you ?
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Where do you see yourself 10 years from now.... oh, that question 🙈🙉🙊
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Bonjooouurrr @-Phil-!! 😊😊 For me in 10 years one of my biggest dreams is after i study in Amsterdam that i can study half or a whole year in France at a university (maybe Paris and others said also that Lyon is très nice)!! 🙂 I will anser later more but i have to bike with smb soon!!
Wbu @-Phil-?? 🙄🙄🙄
I'm not surprised you're the first one to reply. Student exchange or the possibility to study abroad is for sure a must / nice life experience. The location is something you have to décidé later based on how your life and learning unfolds. Sure Paris will hopefully always be Paris , but there are other nice places to be and more importantly , this will very much ne about a place where you will feel well. Enjoy tne biking 😇
Yes Phil, this was an old favourite at interviews. It catches you out the first time you hear it. I was at an interview for a telephone banking company in the 90s, and out of a room of about 70 of us they said that only the best 10 on the maths and English tests would be interviewed. Anyway I was praised for unusually high exam scores, but the interview didn’t go well. I was older than the man who was running the whole department and doing the interviews, and I could tell he didn’t like me. When he asked me this question I said, “Sitting where you are now, in charge of the department.” He turned unfriendly and said that I was not going to be a manager there in the foreseeable future (I was already a manager in my trade) and he asked me questions about banking of which I had no knowledge at all. I told him that these were skills which I would have to learn on the job over time and with training. He smiled. As I left, I knew that he wasn’t going to offer me a job. So take care, sound ambitious and interested and goal oriented, but remember that not everyone is going to appreciate your answer.
Yes Phil, this was an old favourite at interviews. It catches you out the first time you hear it. I was at an interview for a telephone banking company in the 90s, and out of a room of about 70 of us they said that only the best 10 on the maths and English tests would be interviewed. Anyway I was praised for unusually high exam scores, but the interview didn’t go well. I was older than the man who was running the whole department and doing the interviews, and I could tell he didn’t like me. When he asked me this question I said, “Sitting where you are now, in charge of the department.” He turned unfriendly and said that I was not going to be a manager there in the foreseeable future (I was already a manager in my trade) and he asked me questions about banking of which I had no knowledge at all. I told him that these were skills which I would have to learn on the job over time and with training. He smiled. As I left, I knew that he wasn’t going to offer me a job. So take care, sound ambitious and interested and goal oriented, but remember that not everyone is going to appreciate your answer.
Oh for sure not everyone would appreciate my answers, maybe even more nowadays than when I started my career 😂 While actually, this is the type of question that should be part of some self awareness reasoning, meaning there shouldn't be "good" or "bad" answers.
