Medical Device Sales Mock Interview
Master 30 Medical Device Sales interview questions covering clinical knowledge, consultative selling, and OR experience.
Question 2 of 30
How would you handle competition between your coworkers to maintain accounts?
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Jenna has 6 years of in-house and agency recruiting experience for roles in the consumer packaged goods and adult beverage industries.
The interviewer wants to make sure that you are a team player. While some competition between teammates can motivate everyone to achieve more, unnecessary fighting amongst teammates all competing towards the same larger goal will ultimately decrease morale and render everyone less successful.
Jenna has 6 years of in-house and agency recruiting experience for roles in the consumer packaged goods and adult beverage industries.
This question is best answered by providing examples of awards and competitions that you have won or thoroughly enjoyed competing in. Make sure to keep your answer light and positive. You want to provide the impression that you enjoy working with others and giving a positive response to this question is a great way to do so!
Jenna has 6 years of in-house and agency recruiting experience for roles in the consumer packaged goods and adult beverage industries.
As mentioned above, avoid putting any sort of negative spin on your response here. If you do not have an anecdote that ends in a friendly competition that you have won, I recommend not providing one at all for this question.
Jenna has 6 years of in-house and agency recruiting experience for roles in the consumer packaged goods and adult beverage industries.
"I really enjoy friendly competition among co-workers! Although I do view myself as self-motivated, it's so fun to have that bit of extra push to consistently one-up each other during the target month."
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I enjoy friendly competition. It's always nice to one-up each other during the month and I think it helps push each of us to perform better.
Chad's Feedback
Great! Friendly competition in the workplace can be a positive when it leads to increased performance for both the team and individual staff members. If you have an example from a time in your career when friendly competition with your co-workers led to an increase in performance, take this opportunity to let the interviewer know.
Anonymous Answer
Personally, I am very competitive with myself. I enjoy doing 5-10k runs - prior to covid, I did a half marathon. Now although that's the case, I find friendly competition motivating.
Marcie's Feedback
It's great that you're competitive and the interviewer will likely find it interesting that you run competitively. But don't forget to spell out exactly how you would manage competition at work in this specific instance. If possible, give an example of a time when you successfully dealt with this kind of competition. You might talk about how friendly competition motivates you but that you also respect your colleagues and recognize the importance of working as a team. It's a balance and the interviewer will want to know that you have both a collaborative and competitive mindset. Good job!
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