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Interview · Behavioural

Teamwork and collaboration

Covers shared goals, working with different styles, reliability to teammates and sharing credit. Suits any role where results depend on other people, from first jobs to senior individual contributors. Follow-ups push past 'we' to the candidate's own part and to what actually changed for the team.

Suits: Team lead, Project coordinator, Operations associate, Analyst, Software engineer

Questions
7 of 17
Length
32 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
All levels
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Contribution to shared goals30%
    • Working across differences25%
    • Reliability to teammates25%
    • Generosity and support20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Contribution to shared goals30%
    Shows a clear personal part in team results and keeps it linked to others' work.
  • Working across differences25%
    Adapts to different styles, views and goals and finds workable agreements.
  • Reliability to teammates25%
    Does what they said, flags problems early and owns misses.
  • Generosity and support20%
    Helps others succeed, shares credit and asks for help well.
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