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How would you handle the job-related stress that comes with working in a fast-paced environment here at Microsoft?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Life at Microsoft can entail a very fast-paced environment due to the quick pace when new and innovative products are put to market. If hired at Microsoft, there is a good chance that the role you are interviewing for will pull you in several directions on the job and this can cause a great deal of stress for any person. In asking this question, your interviewer is ideally looking to hear that you can stay calm, cool, and collected when faced with stress on the job. As you answer, talk about your ability to prioritize work and take your tasks one at a time to ensure that you are giving every task its full attention. As well, be sure to talk about ways that you stay organized in your work, and don't hesitate to give an example of a time where you had to work under a great deal of pressure.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I handle stress well on the job and when you call my references, they will attest to this fact. When I am under pressure on the job, I focus on the task at hand, doing my best to keep from being distracted. This means that when engrossed with a task, I stay away from email until the work is complete. Staying on deadline is helpful, and I will delegate when necessary to alleviate some stress."
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Not faster than _____. Day at a time, prioritize work, negotiate work that can slide. Otherwise, work evening, weekend. Used to say I did my best work at 2 am, older, need 7 hours of sleep.
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Stress is inevitable in the workplace. It's important to use this opportunity to showcase your ability to face stressful situations head-on. You can strengthen your response by providing a specific example of how you've handled stress well in the past, or telling about a time when increased pressure actually helped you work more productively. This illustrates your ability to transform stress into action, successfully turning a negative into a positive, to accomplish your goal.
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