Timeline for How should I answer "Tell me about a time you had a conflict at work" if I've never had conflicts?
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| Apr 23, 2020 at 18:30 | comment | added | seventyeightist | +1 for the different perspective, but I think there's a caveat here in that (my experience bears this out) generally there's a sort of implied consensus about what "conflict" means when it comes up in this interview question, which is frequent. As such depending on how it's presented, asking about the definition of conflict 'might' come off as nit picking, someone who will challenge the semantics of everything without really getting to the substance, etc. IMO the definition of conflict is what's at issue for the OP, but not as a frame challenge in the interview. | |
| Apr 19, 2020 at 10:06 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarified a sentence
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| Apr 18, 2020 at 21:00 | comment | added | Michael Durrant | This is the real answer. The definition of 'conflict' is absolutely what is at issue here. You can finess this also with 'well I avoid emotional arguments when I have different opinions, I try to see the other persons point of view, ask them more questions, blah, blah, etc. But start with the question "Please can you tell me a bit more about what you are thinking when you say "conflict". An argument that left bad feeling afterwords? Is that what they mean? | |
| Apr 18, 2020 at 18:23 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
original phrasing contradicted my point.
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| Apr 18, 2020 at 18:12 | comment | added | barbecue | This is the pragmatic approach. If the interviewer (incorrectly IMO) thinks a minor disagreement about how to perform some trivial task counts as a conflict, they're misusing the word, so you need to understand what they're really asking about. | |
| Apr 18, 2020 at 9:49 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |