How to Answer: What role do you usually take in team projects?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Sirius XM job interview.
3. What role do you usually take in team projects?
How to Answer
The interviewer truly wants to understand the role that you naturally take on, when put into a team-based environment. If you tend to take the lead, you can let the interviewer know, but avoid sounding overbearing. If you usually like to generate new ideas and allow someone else to execute them, share your creative side but express that you prefer for others to take the lead.
Written by Rachelle Enns on February 26th, 2019
1st Answer Example
"I am usually the 'ideas person' in team projects. In my current position, I am not the most persuasive, but I am highly creative. This skill means that, in most projects, I am great at creating a plan of action but am most comfortable passing the final client-facing tasks to our more extroverted personnel."
Written by Rachelle Enns on February 26th, 2019
2nd Answer Example
"I am newer to my media career so, at this point, I will be quite careful with making suggestions in group meetings. I have great ideas that I am more comfortable pitching one-on-one with my boss. The more experience that I gain, the more comfortable I am becoming when it comes to speaking up in team meetings or during team collaborations."
Written by Rachelle Enns