How to Answer: Have you ever experienced a time where your voiced wasn't heard in a particular work situation? How did you handle that situation and what did you learn from it?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a DePuy Mitek job interview.
3. Have you ever experienced a time where your voiced wasn't heard in a particular work situation? How did you handle that situation and what did you learn from it?
How to Answer
As an organization, DePuy Mitek promotes an open atmosphere for employees to speak their mind and let their voice be heard in important thought processes and decisions. For this question, your interviewer is looking to see how you reacted to a time where your input or ideas weren't taken well, if at all, to see if you learned a valuable lesson or two from that situation. In your example, try to exemplify that you are the person that strives to give input and be heard no matter what situation you find yourself in.
Written by Ryan Brunner on April 3rd, 2019
1st Answer Example
"Early in my career out of college, I joined a sales team that was a majority of seasoned veterans that had been with the business for 15 plus years. After training with some sales reps in my first couple of weeks, we had a sales staff meeting one evening. In having witnessed some areas for improvement in sales techniques with everyone I had shadowed, I asked my manager if I could give input in the middle of the meeting and I was very bluntly told no as the meeting continued under his lead. After the meeting, another newer sales rep approached me to let me know that the department operated under the 'Good Old Boys' club philosophy where we had to learn their ways versus the old reps learning from the new. I totally got it mentally, even though somewhat frustrating in knowing that my intentions were good. Moving forward, I used that meeting as motivation to build a strong client base and sales numbers to show my methods were effective."
Written by Ryan Brunner on April 3rd, 2019
2nd Answer Example
"Throughout my career, I've found it super important to network with other marketing professionals and I'm always willing to attend different conferences and CE events to do this. A couple of years ago, I attended a food industry marketing conference to be able to hopefully learn from others in another industry. In a breakout session that day, I was asking a lot of questions around digital and online techniques that were geared toward the food industry that I could help to bring back to my business. After some questions, the facilitator of the session just quit calling on me. I got the hint quickly that because I was an outsider in the group, she felt I was hindering progress in the group. Knowing my place at the time, I let the shunning fly over my shoulder and used the remainder of the time to be a devout listener and learner in both that session and for the rest of the conference."
Written by Ryan Brunner