How would you react in an interview in which the interviewer is just trying to get free advice?

Howdy,


I use a lot of innovative tools and techniques. I use a power-dialer that makes 5 parallel dials at the same time; I have a virtual extended team that's able to do menial work, such as data entry, web searches, and photo-shopping; and I also use web-scraping to develop lists. I've a lot of successes using my methods, techniques, and ability to problem-solve.


Anyways, I'm worried about future job interviewers who are only interested to know my methods, since none of them are doing these tactics. I'm worried about an interviewer not interested in my candidacy as a salesperson, but instead, my methods. I quickly get paranoid about this when an interviewer asks me about "which criterias do you use to determine the optimal conferences to attend?" (not at al my domain - this is marketing's concern); "how does that power-dialer work? How many dials are you able to do? How many connections do you get?"


I know that I'm being exploited when I'm being asked a follow-up question to a question that I haven't even finished answering, and both questions aren't even related to the job that I'm interviewing for.


Finally, I was played before quite a bit by hiring managers. Last year, one lady "interviewed" me for pointers. However, I noticed that the company never hired anyone to fulfill this job requisition.


How do you deal with this?

๐Ÿ—ฃ Interviewing
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ADudeBeingAGuy
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Is this a real question? Are you baiting people to ask about your special set of skillz?ย 

Can't tell.ย 

But...ย 

Qualify the opportunity just like you would qualify a deal I suppose.ย 

The chances that someone would post a fake job and then seek you out to interview you just to steal your special skills is.... not likely. No one is that important.
braintank
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If I was hiring someone and they were using unapproved tools and outsourcing work I'd have questions too.
braintank
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CuriousFox
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ADudeBeingAGuy
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Ohhhhhh shit ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ
UrAssIsSaaS
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This is an objectively ridiculous post.ย 

I interview a lot of people in my current role, and whenever I ask follow up questions its to get a better understanding of how or why an AE does what they do - its never to get free advice from them.

To be honest it sounds like you have a great system that works for you, but if im looking for advice for my team to sell more effectively, im going to go to the people that are either in my org and really good at what they do, or to other that have had success in my vertical. Im not going to pick the brain of someone that wants to work for me.ย 

Hate to hurt your ego here but you're overthinking this.ย 
jefe
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Reaction to the title of your post: Flip the damn table.

Reaction to the post itself: Seriously!?

Who exactly do you think you are? How would these sales managers identify you as someone to steal tactics from!?
Pachacuti
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Are you applying to a lot of positions?ย  Sounds like you have a good thing going where you're at - if you don't apply you wont' ever interview.
Gasty
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where's the spam button?
LordBusiness
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This canโ€™t happen frequently enough that its a โ€œproblemโ€ can it? ย Iโ€™ve never gone into an interview thinking โ€œhmmm, what tips and tricks can we bleed off our candidates this round?โ€ โ€” recruiting and hiring and interviewing is hard enough and enough of a time suck, to take interviews just to โ€œlearn tips and tricksโ€ - I dunno - maybe Iโ€™m wrong here thoughโ€ฆ
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