How to Answer Hard Interview Questions: And Everything Else You Need to Know to Get the Job You Want by Charlie Gibbs

Author:Charlie Gibbs [Gibbs, Charlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Business & Economics, Careers, Job Hunting
ISBN: 9781845283735
Publisher: How To Books
Published: 2009-08-01T08:06:39+00:00

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QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR LEADERSHIP OF

CHANGE

More and more these days, the philosophy of ‘continuous improvement’ is

being adopted and applied by organisations in every sector. By the very

nature of continuous improvement, change is inevitable and indeed

welcomed – but not by all. Some individuals react well to change and see

this as a way of enriching or improving their working lives. Others are

fearful of change and either resist overtly or by more subtle methods.

You may very well be asked about your experiences of change in the

workplace and possibly how you have initiated or led change. This does

not have to mean formal change programmes with milestones and

Gantt charts and the like. It may mean simple changes to the way you

have worked in the past that has accrued a benefit for the organisation.

It may mean how you have reacted to a change thrust upon you. Either

way, there is nothing as sure as change as organisations develop and

evolve over time, so you should be equipped with the types of answers

that employers want to hear.

Tell us about a recent time when you had to

Q adapt to a major change.

■ How did you adapt?

■ What was difficult about the transition?

The clue to a good answer for this question is in the use of the word

‘major’. Your interviewer is not looking for some answer in relation to

how you changed suppliers for the photocopy paper for example. This is

BIG change they are on about. Granted, you may not have been subject

to big change, as not everybody has, so if you haven’t, just say so.

I worked for an organisation which was a plc and the culture and style

of how we worked was very much as you’d expect from a large

organisation. We had the best equipment, flexible working practices,

cheap gym membership, etc. However, the company’s shares were

bought by a group of venture capitalists and that’s when the changes

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