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 I am interviewing with my current employer for the CFO role. (This is in Australia)

The interview process is initial interview with a recruitment agency (about 1 hour) with then a short list going to through a company interview panel (CEO plus director).

Should I close in the interview with the recruitment agency?

Other info: business is a utility, $12B in assets and 3000 people. 

Thanks

Darryl

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Submitted by mattpalmer on Friday June 20th, 2014 6:55 pm

Do you believe that the recruiter interviewing you has any influence or control over who progresses?  (hint: if they have absolutely no skin in the game, why are they interviewing you?)  If so, you should definitely close them.  Assuming you're not doing it completely ham-fistedly and making people feel uncomfortable, it can't hurt your chances, and it may move you from "hmm... perhaps not" to "hmm... OK, I'll put him through".