Pfizer HireVue Mock Interview
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Question 27 of 30
Talk about a time you successfully contributed to a team goal.
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
At Pfizer, collaboration is vital to the success of any team. The hiring team reviewing your HireVue session would like to know more about your desire and willingness to contribute to team-based efforts. The goal of your response is to outline the role that you take in a team and highlight how your approach to teamwork is a fit for this team at Pfizer.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
When you form your response, consider including detail on what you know about Pfizer's take on teamwork and collaboration. Many companies readily offer this information on their careers website or their core values statement. Take time to research and think about the connecting points between the company's view on teamwork and collaboration and how you emulate these values.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
This question presents the opportunity for you to be a storyteller. Using the STAR method, form an engaging story-based response that showcases your proudest accomplishment in a team-based setting. STAR is an acronym for Situation, Task, Action, Result.
Use a solid and compelling example of your willingness and desire to be a team contributor. Be as specific as you can while remaining concise and on topic. If possible, describe a recent scenario that relates to this new opportunity.
At the end of your response, explain how your teamwork abilities will ensure your success and fit with Pfizer's values related to teamwork and collaboration.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The average HireVue interview takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. This one-way video interview typically includes three to five questions. Depending on the hiring company's parameters, the HireVue platform will generally give you 30 seconds to prepare a response and up to two minutes to answer each question. It's important to note that HireVue stops recording as soon as your time limit is up, so it's better to run under time than overtime.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"During my time as an Administrative Assistant for a large sales team about five years ago, my team was under some challenging deadlines for hitting quotas on a few key products. Having sat in on the team meetings leading up to the deadline, I took it upon myself to run some reports on the last six months worth of sales and which accounts hadn't been approached with the products. Our sales team appreciated this effort I took unasked, and they ended up exceeding all goals."
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Thankfully, I have not experienced conflict with close colleagues on too many occasions. I’m a team person and I believe I’m excellent at working as part of a team.
However, when I first started working on a previous takeaway, a member of my team was making inappropriate jokes about me in front of other people, and these made me feel very uncomfortable.
So, I had two options. I could either leave it, which I wasn’t prepared to do, or I could tackle the conflict. Because I’m a team person, I want to get on with everybody. I want to work effectively as part of a team because that helps us all to achieve our objectives.
I first assessed my behavior to see if I was doing anything to contribute to the conflict. And I felt I wasn't.
So, I then decided to speak to the person who was making the inappropriate jokes in private. And I used an open, calm, and positive style of communication to speak to them. I said to them… “I've noticed on a couple of occasions that you've been making inappropriate jokes. These have been making me feel uncomfortable. And I just wondered why you felt the need to do so?”
They were quite taken aback when I confronted them, and they apologized and agreed that they would not do it again in the future. I felt by having the confidence to deal with a conflict, I was able to resolve it quickly because I feel if you leave the conflict, it can grow and develop into something more serious.
I was pleased that I had the confidence to tackle it. And, we became really good friends, myself and the other co-worker, and we still meet up regularly up to this date.
I believe having the courage and confidence to speak up about your ideas and views on a particular thing is an important skill to possess for a trainee pharmacist position.
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This is a good response but may be better suited for a question related to conflict resolution or interpersonal skills. Typically, when this question is asked, the interviewer looks for an example of how you contributed to achieving a team goal. For example, maybe the team was tasked with completing 100 order fills in a certain period, or perhaps there was a goal your team was expected to meet, but you were short-staffed. The interviewer wants to learn more about what you did as an individual that contributed to the team's success. That could be helping the team get organized, motivating and encouraging others, using communication skills to get the job done, delegation, etc.
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