Discuss the most stressful situation you came across in your previous job.
Discuss the most stressful situation you came across in your previous job.
Here you should discuss a stressful situation that you were able to overcome and keep a positive tone, do not say you never came across a stressful situation. Typical answers can be:
-Our team’s targets were increased three fold and initially everyone was shocked to see the numbers, but we discussed it with our manager and he was co-operative and understood the situation. But he wanted us to give it a try and was ready to reduce the targets to a more realistic number.
-You can also talk about a very demanding project where you worked for long hours/2 shifts and had to sacrifice on family time, but once the project was done you got recognition for the hard work and you were over the stress.
Discussion
- RE: Discuss the most stressful situation you came across in your previous job. -Farhana Afreen (06/19/15)
- Stay calm and composed. Your posture need not show that talking about the gone stressful situation makes you sweat over it again. Stressful situations do arise in every work and you must have come across some for sure or at least you though the situation was stressful when it was actually not. Do not try pretending brave by saying that no matter what the situation might be you never take too much stress; you will come across as someone who doesn't take his work seriously. You can pick a situation where something went wrong and got everyone stressed including you but somehow you managed to bring the situation under control. Share the experience and add what according to you these challenging situations demand. You can also add what you learnt from bad experiences which makes you better at your work.
If you don't have such a situation to account perhaps because you lack much experience at work, think of one which might not be very challenging to an experienced personnel but could be stressful to a fresher. Add that since you were new to work back then, this mere situation which you are now capable of handling without any fuss, seemed stressful to you. Whichever situation you choose to mention, make sure that you conclude with a good ending; problem solved.
