Decision making

Top jobs give employees both power and responsibility. Employees are forced to make difficult decisions as part of their employment, often during times of intense pressure and/or stress.

Employers need to know that the people they hire are competent enough to make good decisions during these times. This is why interviewers test candidates with competency based questions targeted at measuring their decision making skills.

Examples of decision making competency based questions are:

• What is the toughest decision you have ever made? Why was this so difficult?
• How do you come to conclusions?
• Tell me about a decision you have made that has affected other people.
• Do you find decisions difficult?
• Give me an example of a bad decision you have made. Why was this a bad decision?

To answer these questions you should give examples of sensible and pertinent decisions you have made during difficult situations either at work, in education or during extracurricular pursuits.

For further information see Competency Based Questions and Competency Based Interview.