Personnel Selection: Interview Questions: Stress/Environment
- Can you work under pressure?
- Did you ever have a customer get mad at something that wasn't your fault?
- Do you have experience working under strict time limits?
- Do you work well in pressure situations?
- Do you work well under pressure?
- Does your present job have a lot of pressure?
- Have you any experience working to meet deadlines?
- Have you ever worked in a place where it seemed to be just one crisis after another?
- How do you cope with stress on the job?
- How do you deal with tension?
- How do you work under pressure?
- How effective are you under pressure?
- How well do you work under a deadline?
- How well do you work under pressure?
- How would you clarify an unclear assignment?
- "If you had a project due and a co-worker wanted to talk about something else, what would you do?"
- "In what kind of a work environment are you most comfortable: structured, unstructured, etc."
- In what kind of work environment are you most comfortable?
- In what ways do you deal with criticism?
- Is there a lot of pressure in your current job?
- Tell me about a time when you were assigned an unwelcome job. What did you do?
- Think of a particularly hectic day. How did you handle it?
- Under what type of conditions have you been most successful at any project?
- What do you find frustrating?
- What do you find tough to do?
- What happens when two priorities compete for your time?
- What has been the most difficult decision you've had to make in the last 3 years?
- What has been the most difficult situation you've had to deal with? How did you handle it?
- What is your definition of stress?
- What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it?
- What major problem have you encountered and how did you handle it?
- What major provlem have you encountered? How did you resolve it?
- What methods do you employ to overcome challenges?
- What part of your workload do you find most challenging?
- What pressure situations have you been involved with?
- What tense experiences have you had on the job?
- What was the environment at your last job like?
- What was the most frustrating thing about your last job?