What is your personal purpose?
This company-centric question aims to reveal how aligned you are with their core values, mission statements, and value propositions. They want to know how you bring your passions to what you do professionally. How well you answer this may set you apart from the other candidates. If you feel like the right fit, it will seem you are already a part of their team. Convey your like-mindedness and that it will take no time during your onboarding to get up to speed.
Before your interview, research the company, and learn everything about the company purpose and the personal purpose they expect their employees to have. "At BlackRock, we believe we're at our best when our employees connect their personal purpose to their work and our firm's purpose. In our 'What's Your Why' series, employees share how they bring their passions to what they do. BlackRock's purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. We rely on our principles to guide how we interact with each other, our clients, the communities in which we operate, and all of our other stakeholders. These principles represent our core values, our aspirations, and our cultural language, lived and embraced by every employee at our firm."
The assessment model will study your behavior to ascertain if you believe in what you are saying. So answer with sincerity and align your interests with theirs. This can be done easily if you have done your homework on the company and yourself.
"I would say it has been my purpose for some time now to provide people with power over their money. Your money can work against you, or it can work for you. All you need is just a little to get started. I'm here to help my clients get started and keep growing."
