Accenture Internship Mock Interview
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Question 28 of 40
Provide a recent example of a significant challenge you dealt with and how you overcame it.
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"My professor challenged our class to complete an equation one other student ever solved. They said that we couldn't ask for outside help, and would be restricted to library resources. I asked what the name of the student was who solved this riddle. They told me their name and that the student attended the college back in the 1950s. So I combed through every relevant library book from that time period and looked for their name on the book card in each book. I found three textbooks and read through each. Several passages had underlined passages and notes that seemed quite old. Following those breadcrumbs, I reached the same conclusions. My professor asked how I solved the equation and I told them how. They debated for some time whether this constituted outside help. In the end, they decided that there was no way to determine if the student from the 1950s had written the notes, or if someone else had, and they followed the same clues I had and reached the same conclusion via the same method. They gave me extra credit points. I took my final anyway and got a perfect score."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
They're looking for insights into your approach when confronting such situations. They're curious what you'd deem a significant challenge, and how you approach such challenges. How you answer this question will help them determine what you have to contribute to Accenture.
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
On their website, they state they are looking for a "motivated apprentice" in their interns. With the accent on 'motivation,' the key here is to present such challenges as motivating circumstances.
While some might suffer from task paralysis, feeling overwhelmed by significant challenges, others shift into high gear, motivated to overcome obstacles. 'Motivated apprentices.' Consider this when framing your example.
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
You want to avoid returning to the same example you provided to similar questions in the same set. Returning to a single example and exploring it deeper, or paraphrasing the same messaging will only serve to attest to your lack of experience. Delivering consistent messaging across a range of examples that fit the uniqueness of these similar questions will attest to consistency in your work ethic, and a broader range of leadership experience.
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