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How you answer this question should offer insights into your performance standard and inform them of what they could expect from you as an employee. When answering questions such as these, WTW suggests, "Practice your answers. Before the interview, think through your experience, skills, and interests, and get ready to discuss how they make you a good fit for the job. The more you can provide us with specific examples, the better."
But you want to be honest and sincere in your answers. The assessment vendor will be able to identify whether you're being completely honest through your verbal and nonverbal cues. These include repeating a question before answering, placing stress or emphasis on certain words, stuttering, taking long pauses, speaking in sentence fragments, and rising and falling tone. When your words don't match your gestures, it's your gestures that will be seen as the truth. So speak from the heart.
When answering these questions, you want to showcase yourself as a professional well-suited to the position you are competing for. So, as WTW advises, "Dress appropriately. You cannot go wrong with a traditional business suit or other professional business attire, but know that at Willis Towers Watson we dress for our day, so you can expect to see many colleagues dressed in business casual."
HireVue also offers similar advice, "We recommend that you wear exactly what you would for a traditional face-to-face interview. This can mean something different for every company and position, so we recommend picking your outfit based on the role you are interviewing for. Think about it this way: if you're applying to a non-customer-facing role, it will probably have a more casual dress code, and a nice, clean top, free of excess writing, will probably do for your interview! Alternatively, if you're applying for a role where you'd typically wear a suit and tie every day, we recommend you do the same for your interview. It may feel a little different to put on your Sunday best for your kitchen table, but hey, at least you won't have to get it pressed again after this, right?"
Make sure you closely examine Willis Towers Watson and determine how they evaluate success. Examine their mission statements and their core values, which they state, "frame our approaches and ways of working, and living them day-to-day drives our success." Then closely examine how you evaluate your own success and how your values align with theirs.
"I would say I am most proud of the last team I built. I recruited and coached them, and together we are a tight-knit group. We outperformed and really shined. So even though I built and developed the team, so much of the success is theirs, not mine. Or rather, the accomplishment is ours. But of all my accomplishments, I am most proud of my teams."
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