TEAMWORK

TEAMWORK

In my last postion, I was part of a software implementation team. We all worked together to plan and manage the implementation schedule, to provide customer training, and ensure a smooth transition for our custom ers. Our team always completed our projects ahead of schedule with very positive reviews from our clients.

I was part of team responsible for evaluating and selecting a new vendor for our office equipment and supplies. The inter-departmental team reviewed options, compared pricing and service, chose a vendor, and implemented the transition to the new vendor.

In high school, I enjoyed playing soccer and performing with the marching band. Each required a different kind of team play, but the overall goal of learning to be a member of a group was invaluable. I continued to grow as team member while on my sorority's debate team and through my advanced marketing class where we had numerous team assignments.

The following sample job interview questions about team s and team work enable you to asses s your candidate’s skill in working with teams. Feel free to use these job interview questions in your own candidate interviews.

∙Give an example of a successful project you were part of. What was your role? Why was the project successful?

∙Describe two situations from your past work experience in which you have determined a team was the best potential solution to a problem, a needed process

improvement, or a planned change. How did each work out?

∙What actions and support, in your experience, make a team function successfully?

∙Give me an example of a time when your work group or department worked especially well with another work group or departm ent to accomplish a goal.

∙Have you been a member of a team that struggled or failed to accomplish its goal? If so, what assessment did you make of the reasons for the failure?

Teams and Team Work Job Interview Question Answers

Depending on your work culture or environment, working with teams, working on a team, or working in a team atmosphere may be important. You are attempting to identify how well your candidate works as a member of either a cross-functional or departmental team. You are listening to hear that the candida te values team work. You are assessing your candidate’s skill in analysis as well.

You are also discovering, with these team work job interview questions, what your candidate believes about why teams fail and why teams are successful. You are learning what must be present in the work environment for the candidate to experience team work.

Example of Good Teamwork and Bad Relationships

Poor Relationships?

Does good teamwork require good relationships between team members? Below is an example that seems to dispel that myth.

A Breakdown in Relationship

In 1998, the main striking partnership of Manchester United was Andy Cole and Teddy Sheringham. For readers unitiated in European Football, these two had primary responsibility for scoring goals. To do so against good opposition required a great deal of co-operation between them.