How to Answer: Tell me about a time you worked with a team to accomplish a goal. What was your biggest contribution?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Morningstar job interview.
1. Tell me about a time you worked with a team to accomplish a goal. What was your biggest contribution?
How to Answer
Like other team-based questions, your answer to this question should demonstrate that you're a team player and can work well with others, making it a relatively straightforward question. Think of a real work scenario and do your best to show, don't tell. For your most important contribution, reflect on a tangible skill that has set you apart when working in a team. It could be your excellent programming experience or your ability to raise group morale. Whatever makes you unique as a team member, make sure it will be relevant to the role to which you're applying.
Written by Rachel Hills on September 28th, 2021
1st Answer Example
"A few months ago, I worked with four colleagues to form an equity & inclusion committee at our firm. Because we created the committee from scratch, it was a huge amount of work, and each member of the team worked together to outline our individual roles and decide on our objectives. While every team member brought unique perspectives and experiences to the table, I think my most important contribution was creating a reporting process to organize and quantify progress toward our objectives and the related actions associated with each of them. My data analysis expertise helped the team have a system of measuring our impact with real data."
Written by Rachel Hills on September 28th, 2021
2nd Answer Example
"My team and I set the goal last year to win ten new clients by the end of the fiscal year. We broke this goal into manageable pieces and set smaller goals with deadlines every few weeks. In addition, we piloted a new software for project management and communication, which ended up working great and is now an important part of our planning process. Two team members tackled business development strategy, two worked on marketing, and I worked with my colleague on new client onboarding and maintenance. By the end of the fiscal year, we ended up exceeding our goal with thirteen new clients."
Written by Rachel Hills on September 28th, 2021
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Anonymous Answer
We were trying to think of ways of helping people and reducing their burdens. All of our executive team met virtually, and everyone brought their ideas. I gave the idea, of rationing people, so that the volume of people we would help would increase as the cost wasn't much compared to giving motorbikes to people. My idea stood out, and it also got approved because we were somewhat familiar with the logistics of rationing people. I also suggested that we vote on the ideas so it is more of a group decision rather than 1 person calling the shots.
Thankfully, the idea worked out well, and we successfully managed to ration 5000 people in a span of 2 weeks."
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