Competency-base questions

People-related questions:

1. Can you share an experience where you successfully motivated a team to achieve a challenging goal?

2. Describe a time when you had to manage differing attitudes within a team to maintain productivity.

3. Tell me about a situation where you built trust with someone who was initially resistant to your ideas.

How do you develop relationships with your colleagues at work?

Do you usually take the role of a leader or a follower in a group project?

Would you rather see yourself working together with multiple coworkers from different departments or rather focus more on individual projects? (In the future)

Thought-related questions

1.) What is your approach the process of problem solving?

2.) In your past experience in Customer-management, how have you increased customer engagement for your product?

Task-related questions

1.) How do you deal with fulfilling tight deadlines?

2.) Can you give me an example from your past employments, where you had to coordinate a project with your coworkers? What skills did you deploy?

3.) You have to deal with large supply of deliveries daily, how would you organize the order files?

Thought-related questions:

1. Can you describe a time when you had to think creatively to overcome a major obstacle?

2. Share an example of when you identified a hidden opportunity within a challenging situation and acted on it.

3. Tell me about a time you developed a strategy to solve a complex issue effectively.

Task-related questions:

1. Can you share an experience where you had to meet a tight deadline and how you ensured success?

2. Describe a time when you were responsible for setting up a system or process to improve efficiency.

3. Tell me about a situation where you had to coordinate multiple tasks or projects simultaneously.

3.1 Can you give an example of a time you worked on a task that required collaboration with other departments or teams? How did you coordinate your efforts?

3.2 Can you tell me about a time when you resolved a conflict between team members or colleagues?

3.3 Can you provide an example of when you motivated a team or colleague to achieve a challenging goal?

2.1 Tell me about a time you had to think creatively to solve a unique or unexpected challenge.

2.2 Describe a situation where you had to make a difficult choice under pressure. How did you ensure it was the right decision?

2.3 Tell me about a situation where you had to think several steps ahead to anticipate challenges or opportunities.

How do you go about breaking down an important task?

How do you proceed when you get stuck on a project? Would you rather seek help or try to figure it out on your own?

People-related questions

1.) You are put in a situation where you are understaffed due to unplanned employee absences, how would you deal with this?

2.) How do you approach team projects?

3.) Picture this: You are working in our company and leading a team of 6 people on a project development. One of the team-members has inadequately completed the last task you gave her. Now, you need to coordinate the following weeks and have an important objective. Do you delegate this to this team-member or do you do it yourself?

(Keep in mind, all other team members are already occupied)

Tell me about your experience when you had to lead a team in a project

Have you ever been overwhelmed by a task and how did you cope with it?

Have you ever been in a disagreement with a co worker? If yes, how did you resolve it?

1.1 Can you tell me about a time you had to prioritize tasks under a tight deadline? How did you manage your time?

1.2 Share an example of when you had to manage unexpected changes in a project. How did you adapt and keep things on track?

1.3 Describe a time you were asked to take on a task outside your usual responsibilities. How did you handle it?