HOW TO PASS A FINANCIAL ADVISER ASSESSMENT DAY

This technique relies on two major principles of social science.

People don’t like to change their minds once they have made it.

People in a group like to agree with each other.

When you feel you have just given a good performance in an assessment task, ask the manager who is marking the task, firstly if your performance was fine, and secondly whether you get their vote. (notice the shift in questions from a task based question firstly, to a personal based question secondly.)

If he/she says yes, you have their vote, then you have a significant advantage over all other candidates.

Why?

Once someone has said that you “have my vote”, this has been cemented in their own mind and you will indeed have their vote when your name is mentioned in the “wash up” discussions, when the decisions are made after the assessment has finished.

Because you have that one person who champions your cause during the decision making discussion, you would be surprised how many of their colleagues start looking for the positives in your performance as well.

Once someone in the group has offered an opinion on someone (they will because they said you have their vote), then in our significant experience the rest of the decision making group will veer towards agreeing with that opinion.

Tasks where you marginally failed are glossed over, as near passes and areas where you were strong become exceptional strengths, which obviously far out weigh the areas in which you have a minor development need.

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