What major problems did you face in your last role?
What major problems did you face in your last role?
The agenda of this question is to understand if
- You caused the problem
- Could it have been avoided?
- Your attitude to solve it.
It is safer to mention a problem which was caused by an external party rather than the problems within internal parties.
May be you can take an example of the problem caused by a customer, vendor. Discuss what you did to solve the problem. If you took some leadership role also in the whole process, talk about it.
Discussion
- RE: What major problems did you face in your last role? -Farhana Afreen (09/22/15)
- Problems and challenges are unavoidable parts of work life.
Organizations expect their candidates to be up and running in times of distress and not crack under pressure. This question is intended to find out just this feature. Mention the problems that you faced, followed by what you did in the situation to overcome it and at the end how well you handled it.
You should make sure that the problems you are mentioning are all relevant to your present job profile and the solutions you offer are also valid and understandable.
