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Kalasin
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What is the best way to answer: "Tell me about a time where you were in a group with someone who wasn't pulling his or her weight?"
Thanks!
Edit: Sample responses would be greatly appreciated! :)
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Zeratul
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I'd like to know myself. I hate this goddamn question. It's right up there with "What would you do if someone you were working with did something ethically questionable?"
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The best way to deal with questions like this is make something up. Realistically, that's much better than trying to remember a real story, which most likely was so insignificant that it was not worth mentioning. Tell them that communication with the person in question was the key to resolving the problem, they like that. It is not about the story , it's about the key ideas you are expected to touch upon. Give some juicy details if necessary
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Dahlia1
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I just hope that all these companies who asks this kind of questions hire bunch of liars and idiots. I remember last fall I had a feed back interview with PWC guy which apparently was taken more seriously than just a training interview because after that my resume was rejected. So, he asked me what I did when I had a team and one of the members was not doing his job. One time I was in a team of 4 doing a project for a class. One girl was not doing what she was supposed to do and never answered her phone, did not respond to emails. At the end I did my part and her part. So, I told the instructor that she did not pitch in at all. Apparently that was the wrong answer. Also PWC was the wrong company. I am glad I am not working there.
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soc09
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Dahlia1 wrote:
| I just hope that all these companies who asks this kind of questions hire bunch of liars and idiots. I remember last fall I had a feed back interview with PWC guy which apparently was taken more seriously than just a training interview because after that my resume was rejected. So, he asked me what I did when I had a team and one of the members was not doing his job. One time I was in a team of 4 doing a project for a class. One girl was not doing what she was supposed to do and never answered her phone, did not respond to emails. At the end I did my part and her part. So, I told the instructor that she did not pitch in at all. Apparently that was the wrong answer. Also PWC was the wrong company. I am glad I am not working there.
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Which is exactly why you should make things of this nature up to fit the scenario they want to hear. In the lives of a vast majority of students, nothing happens that would follow the behavioral rules these firms established. In real life, things are not done by the Big 4 book and if you try and use a real example you will most likely fail.
Just use the keywords Big 4 loves such as communication, collaboration, leadership, team work , in different variations and you will be able to make up an example and a solution to the problem
By the way, it was a bad answer, what were you thinking? Could you have just said that you communicated with the girl, identified what the reasons were and in the end succeeded in getting her to do her part? Who cares if it was true or not? They will not fact check your interview, I guarantee you that
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