The Five-Year Fiction: Winning the Interview's Favorite Guessing Game
- Lauren Deats
- 4 days ago
- 6 min read
How to prove you have a five-year plan without sounding like a corporate robot.
By: Lauren Deats
The Love-Hate Career Relationship
Estimated Read: 16 Minutes
How To: Answer the interview question - "Where Do You See Yourself In 5 Years?"
Hey Bloomers!
Grab a fresh notepad and your best poker face. We are about to deconstruct the single most unoriginal question in the history of human resources: "Where do you see yourself in five years?"
This is the peak of our Love-Hate relationship with career planning. We love the idea of having a trajectory and a corner office with a view. We absolutely loathe the fact that we are expected to predict the future in a world where we can barely predict what we will want for lunch tomorrow.
When a hiring manager asks this question, they are not looking for a psychic. They are looking for a reason to trust you with their budget and their time. If your answer sounds like a generic script from a 1990s career seminar, you are not just boring the recruiter; you are telling them you have no idea why you are in the room. At Career Bloom Solutions, we want your answer to feel like a strategic roadmap, not a fairy tale.
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