Team Work Fit Question

Hi Anonymous!

This is a typical question in fit interviews and distinctively different from a leadership question:

1. When asking about teamwork, interviewers want to understand how effectively you will work in a consulting case team. The job is stressful and comes with many challenges. As sad as that sounds, most of us see our colleagues more than we do our spouses. This means you need to be a team player to succeed.
2. When preparing for this type of questions, think about a story where you managed a difficult team situation. A conflict among team members, disagreement about how proceed with a project, etc. This story should end with your role in finding the solution and enabling the team to function and succeed. It therefore should not just be a story about your role as a team member, but about how you were fundamental piece to drive success.
3. In a question about leadership, the interviewer wants to hear a story about how you drove a project, convinced others of it's merits and created impact. The team work story needs to tell about how you helped the team succeed.

I hope this helps. Generally, you should make sure to develop all these stories to a point where you can give a 90 second upfront pitch and then be prepared for detailed questions by the interviewer. They will give you a hard time, trying to look for holes in the story to understand if you are authentic or are presenting a brushed-up experience. You should therefore spend significant time on preparing for these questions and ask someone to practice their delivery with you.

Dear A,

Here you might be tested as a team player, any situations with a conflict managements, as well as a leader - because the best leader is best teamplayer - those who can take responsibility and share the success with the team.

Best,
André