THE ULTIMATE
All right all you awesome managers out there in HOA land, it’s time for another Vision magazine cosmo-style quiz! Grab your pencil and get started. And remember, NO cheating! By Vicki MacHale, CCAM
Career Growth
Your company posts a notice that an onsite position will be opening in the next 60 days. You are interested in the position so you:
A. Size up the competition and start nasty rumors about everybody who you believe has a shot.
B. Begin to follow your boss around everywhere and mention how smart and good looking they are; ask for additional assignments and offer to babysit their children.
C. Update your resume, and put together a chronological list of your accomplishments over the past several years. Submit this to the human resources department along with a cover letter explaining why you are the best person for the job.
D. Photo bomb your boss’ Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter account with delightful memes and pics (while rolling your eyes because this media is so yesterday!).
You decide to move on to a new company as your current company no longer fulfills your needs for professional growth. During an interview, you are asked, “Why are you looking for a new opportunity?”
A. You roll your eyes, huff out a loud blast of air and launch into a dissertation about how those owners be cray-cray, you have to process your own mailings, you have way too many accounts for the money you are making and the owners just don’t know how to run a business.
C. You explain that while you were offered a great opportunity at your current company, and you will always be grateful for their support, you feel it is time to partner with a new company in supporting their mission while furthering your career goals and industry growth.
D. You cock your head to the side while you move that little bar in your tongue in and out of its hole while you try to think of a good response.
Client Relations
B. You lean in and lower your voice, “The company just doesn’t have the infrastructure to support the clients. I’m pretty sure that if you hire me, at least five of my accounts will follow if you know what I mean?” Wink-wink.
You are sitting at a meeting when Fred, the board president, for the fifth time, says something that is absolutely ludicrous and will not work. The rest of the board members are ignoring the comment and talking over him.
A. You reach over and furiously tap the board president’s forehead and say, “Helllllooo, McFly?!”
B. You hold up your hand in the international sign of ‘be quiet,’ and state, “Excuse me, but our leader has spoken, and we all need to listen.”
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