Talk about a time when you helped support your colleagues to achieve overall team success.
Your answer to this question will be evaluated for how team-oriented and supportive you are, which stands to inform them of how aligned you are with their work culture, and whether you can build relationships with, and earn the trust of, their teams. Every recruiter not only has to consider whether the candidate would get along with their teams but whether their teams would approve of any individual they hire. This is yet another aspect of ensuring a candidate is a good match for their culture. For instance, in one of their 'Meet Us' careers blogs, a featured employee shares their experience working as part of the UBS team. "Great work is never done alone. When you feel supported and trusted, you feel empowered and work doesn't feel like work. And by taking the opportunity to learn from my team and those around me, I'm learning to create an impact and push for meaningful change."
Aon's assessment will evaluate your responses and score you for your teamwork style, which they will break up into three categories: your cooperativeness, your sensitivity, and your humility. Concerning your cooperativeness, they'll rate you on a scale of one to five, from being more independent to being more team-oriented. They classify someone who "tends to be more independent as generally less interested in teamwork and cooperation." Whereas they suggest someone who "tends to be more team-oriented and accommodating" might sometimes be taken advantage of.
Then, they'll rate your sensitivity on a scale of one to five, where one is more stoic and five is more compassionate. Someone who is more stoic "tends to be rough-minded and unsentimental, but also candid and direct." Whereas someone who "tends to be kind, compassionate and tolerant, may have difficulty providing negative feedback or being firm with others."
Lastly, they'll rate your humility on a scale from being proud to being humble. Someone who tends to be proud, they suggest, is "cunning and effective at managing situations requiring tact and posturing, but can also be seen as manipulative at times." Whereas they suggest someone who is humble "Tends to be humble and honest, but may be less effective in advocating for their own interests at work."
"There was one time I finished a project early. Printed out, emailed, backed up, done and done. Then our computers went down. Most of the rest of our teams were not so far ahead in their work as I was. We lost half a day. I wanted to help, so I volunteered to proofread anyone's work and be a second set of eyes wherever I could. So, knowing what I am good at, I didn't ask if I could help. I just walked up to them and told them, let me help with that. I am also the fastest typist of everyone on the team, and I knew it. Next thing I knew, I was cross-checking reports, making notes, and sending them back. So many papers were flying across my desk. It was like a scene out of a movie. But we kept scrambling over each other and I acted as backup to everyone. Everyone got their work in on time, and every individual project everyone was working on turned into a team project by the end of the day. What a great and incredibly stressful day."
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