Executive strategy certificate admissions interview practice
Strategic decision-making, competitive priorities and the executive's readiness to apply short-course learning to a live organisational challenge. Practise the 5 questions admissions panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the programme
This interview checks whether an executive strategy certificate fits your responsibilities and current decision needs. The panel looks for a clearly framed strategic challenge, disciplined choices, awareness of execution constraints and a practical plan to use the learning beyond the classroom.
How to prepare
- Frame one live strategic choice in terms of alternatives rather than a broad ambition.
- Identify the market evidence and internal assumptions that currently shape the decision.
- Prepare an example of choosing between priorities when the available information was incomplete.
- Review why a past initiative did or did not move from agreement into execution.
- Consider how you will share and apply course learning with colleagues.
Common mistakes
- Calling a broad target a strategy without explaining what choices it requires.
- Describing only the preferred option and ignoring credible alternatives.
- Treating implementation as a task to consider after the strategic decision.
- Choosing a course project that you have no authority or support to influence.
What to expect
A real admissions interview
5 questions the way admissions panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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