Tough Interview Question #14: How Do You Make Difficult Decisions?

Firms want to believe that the new supervisor they hire is not a lone world,a maverick of a gun slinger. As a result, they will be listening to hear whether you act alone, in concert with others, asking for advice before you have some ideas or whether you make a decision and check to see whether it passes a "sniff test" (Oooh! That idea stinks).

The best thing you can do is acknowledge how, when you were young, you acted on your own without a lot of input and learned the lesson that you weren't expected to know everything but expected to make smart decisions.

Once you learned that lesson, you learned that it was important to ask great questions and have very good advisers.

Always use an example of a difficult decision to illustrate your point!

Jeff Altman 
The Big Game Hunter
www.TheBigGameHunter.us

JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

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