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# ✍️ Your turn: Mock interview

It's time to apply your learnings and put you to the test! You will perform a mock interview with your coach using a scenario we provide 🤓.

Here it goes!

## Case study: SDR at Hyrise Academy
- You are applying for a job at Hyrise Academy to become an SDR for the B2B team.
- [You can find the full job description here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wIHaNKGso5D4SLjwWucTJgc2nij2OIuWbsiKpmCDenM/edit?usp=sharing).
- You will be interviewing with the Head of Sales, who will be your direct manager.
 
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An important note: **This is 100% role play!**
 
- You should get into character and act 100% as if you were really interviewing for Hyrise Academy B2B team.
- You might need to reference or get asked about the training you have just completed - treat it as a "bootcamp" program not connected to Hyrise Academy.
- Here's an example

 
> Interviewer: "I see you've just finished your training program. How did that go?"[color=blue]

> You: "It was great! The course gave us a holistic view of tech sales and the sales funnel, covering all the main activities, from prospecting to qualification, discovery calls, demo calls and closing. More importantly, we got to do quite a lot of real-world activity and I really got to practice and achieve results with different prospecting activities such as cold calling and social selling. I feel i'm ready to hit the ground running from day 1!"[color=#29ce73]

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## How to prepare
Make sure to review what to do before, during and after the interview. Here's a short summary:

### 1. Make sure to do your homework, research the company and answer all important questions.

#### About the Company
- Culture, values, mission, vision
- Competitors, market status quo
- Financial situation, their investors
- Market positioning
- Strategy
- Latest news, projects, clients

#### About the role and you
- Role description and responsibilities
- Understanding of day-to-day activities
- Assessing your experience with specific skills required
- Matching soft and hard skills

#### About the interviewer(s)
- Their names and roles
- The team and their structures
- Background, experience, and common points
- Hobbies
- Personalities

### 2. Be ready to answer all general questions and at least a couple of behavioural questions

Remember, general questions are:

- Tell me about you…
- Why did you decide to join Hyrise?
- Why now?
- Why do you want to work in tech sales?
- What do you like the most/the least about it?
- Why should we hire you?
- What is your greatest strength/weakness?
- Why do you want to work for us?

And for the behavioural questions, make sure you're familiar with the STAR method!

### 3. After the interview, ask questions and follow up

Make sure you come ready to ask some questions after the interview and send a follow up email

 
## Your task
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- Write a short cover letter to your career coach as if they were the hiring manager for Hyrise Academy.
- Express your interest in the role and having an interview.
- Send it through email.
- They will reply with some available timeslots.
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Best of luck!
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