Hi there,

This is indeed an interesting question which is probably relevant for quite a lot of users, so I am happy to provide my perspective on it:

• First of all, since the quesion is asked in quite an open way, I would advise you to think of areas outside of work as well, e.g. your personal life, extracurricular activities, university settings. While in general, work-related examples might be more obvious and slightly more relevant, there is nothing wrong with examples stemming from other dimensions of your life.
• Second, as you already pointed out, every project is somehow ambiguous since you are ultimately the one to define the details of your work stream(s) without much more information. As such, I would advise you to look for situations in which you really had to invest a lot of time to think through a task.
• Lastly, I would advise you to properly prepare your answer and answer to this question (as to all other questions) in a structured way. You may use frameworks like PARADE or STAR if this helps you.

In case you want a more detailed discussion on how to best prepare the personal fit part of consulting interviews, please feel free to contact me directly.

I hope this helps,

Hagen

Hey,

You deal with ambiguity all the time. We all do.

Just dig a little deeper in your education & work experience and at least 5 good examples of “ambiguous” situations will pop out- vague requirements from clients, loose asks for boss, unclear steer from colleague or lack of clarity on objective/agenda/goals etc. Hope you get the point.

So, pick an example and create a nice flow/story around it:

• Start of the story: set the scene & explain the context/situation/issue quickly
• Middle of the story: what happened, what did you do i.e. how did you break down the ambiguous situation, structured an approach to tackle it and implemented your actions
• End of the story: what was the impact/outcome of your efforts & what did you learn. How are you using this learning now and in future

Hope this was helpful.

Hi!

You can share your story with me privately. I'll have a quick look at it.

Best,

Anto