Help me answer this interview question please?

Question

Tell me about a time you were able to overcome a technical difficulty. What would you do to overcome it?How did you handle the interruption to workflow?

Any ideas on how to answer this?

Answer 1

Yes, I have also recently been answering some of these employment application questions. some are actaully quite tough. lol. well I guess their asking about a time in your life when something was hard or difficult and they want to know how you overcame it or completed this challenge. any example would do, I assume. the handle to interruption to workflow, is, I'am assuming you are working and some task from out of the blue, maybe one of your co-workers, asks you for some help.



I hope this helps!

Answer 2

Yes, just invent something.



Tell them you were working on a project that was stored on your work PC when it froze up, and the maintenance guy was off sick so you couldn't quickly get it fixed. That although you had done some of the work at home and therefore had part of it on disk/ memory stick, you didn't have the finished report in full, and you needed it for a deadline the next day.



Then tell them thet you managed to get three colleagues to stay behind on unpaid overtime to help you work through the night to finish it a second time, and that you bought them all a theatre ticket for the next Friday night as a thank you- some thing Shakespearean or other such tedious drivel.



This will show...



Dedication- you didn't give up even with a good excuse. You were personally committed to the task.



Willingness to go the extra mile without seeking extra pay as your main objective.



Team skills- why else would three people work unpaid to help you unless the very sun shines out of your posterior?



Culture- you didn't take them out drinking, you went to some high brow theatre event.



Otherwise, not sure what to suggest- just lie well, thats what interviews seem to be these days. I can't, I am always honest! Good luck

Answer 3

There was this one time this woman had been giving me these suggestive looks. She would wink and unbutton her cleavage. It wasn't sure what she wanted until she had her hand down my pants. This, as you can imagine, was quite the difficulty. So I invited her to the back room and beat her skull in with a metal stapler. She never bothered me again. I say I handled that very well as I was able to get back to my work with no interruptions.

Answer 4

I would say something like;

"When there was a system outage & couldn't do any processing I checked with my work mates to make sure it wasn't just my computer and let our IT & management know, I then checked my desk and with my team leader for duties I could do while the problem was being repaired. "