If hired to this role here at JPMorgan Chase, what do you see as one initial hurdle you will have to overcome in your first weeks on the job?
At the heart of this question, your interviewer is asking you to take an honest look inside of yourself to discuss what you feel is the biggest learning curve you will have if offered this position. This will give your interviewer a sense of how to handle your onboarding process if hired for the position and give them a sense that you have the ability to see what your biggest need would be. Similar to the what is your greatest weakness question, the key to answering this question is humbly pointing out a flaw that you may see and making a plan for how you will overcome that flaw.
"Having put a lot of thought into this even before submitting my resume for this position, I realize that my greatest hurdle would be making the leap as an Auditor into the financial focused industry. My five years of experience out of college have been focused on management and technical consulting services, but I feel that I've built a very good knowledge base and experience for this role here at JPMorgan Chase. If given the opportunity to join your team, my initial focus would be to get enthralled in auditing in the financial industry and I'd do this by being attached at the hip to my colleagues and taking the time to talk one on one with a lot of other staff to help better understand what they'll expect of me in this role."
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Anonymous Answer
As with starting anything new, there is a learning curve. This is the true and stressful truth that I have experienced upon starting all of my past jobs, internships, shadows, and volunteer experience. That being said, this is not bad stress. This stress is what pushed me to stay on top of the ball and participate in active learning. To answer the question at hand, I see learning any specific technical skills or unique systems to be an initial hurdle I will have to overcome in the first few weeks. As for assimilating into groups and working with my team, I tend to find my role and position in this dynamic very effortlessly and do not see this as a hurdle, but as an opportunity.
Marcie's Feedback
Excellent! You come across as confident, motivated, and open to learning. How exactly will you overcome this hurdle? Will you spend extra time outside of work learning the products/services and company information? Will you attend demonstrations and training sessions? Adding some more details about how you will handle this will strengthen your answer. Otherwise, great response!
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