Tricky interview question: How can you ensure strong performance under highly dynamic work conditions?
One such question that you must prepare for is “how can you ensure strong performance under highly dynamic work conditions?” What should be the best possible answer to this?
What an interviewer is looking for while asking this question
In the constantly evolving employment landscape, where unprecedented innovations, complex technologies, and new work models continue to surface at an increasing rate, you are bound to experience diverse work conditions. Such an environment can be exciting, rewarding, demanding, and stressful, all at once.
Divya Mohan, Chief Human Resource Officer, InsuranceDekho, says that the idea behind asking such a question is to assess the candidate’s comfort in dealing with change, uncertainty and challenging situations.
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So what precisely does she look for from candidates answering this question? “I always request specific examples from the past where the candidate has worked in a dynamic environment and has excelled. Once I get a sense of how the successes have been for the candidate, I look for responses that demonstrate the candidate's understanding of the challenges the role throws up, the overall macro factors that influence their work performance, and their own threshold of how much change they can handle.”
What kind of examples do candidates often share?
According to Divya, candidates usually talk about working in fast-paced companies, with frequently changing goalposts and challenges like team unavailability, difficult customers and steep targets. Besides, she has oftentimes seen them highlight their personal values and personality traits like tenacity, hard work and versatility while addressing this
