hello there in this video we will answer the situational interview questions tell
me about a time you had to make a difficult decision tell me one time you
had to make a difficult decision in this video we're going to cover why is this
question asked what to say when you're answering how to answer it and how to
wrap it up gracefully so stay tuned
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behavioral interview questions around decision-making come up a lot so why is
this question asked the question is around how you had to make a difficult
decision and you didn't have all the information that you need it so what
time when your decision was unclear and there was no one around to ask your
manager wasn't available so what did you do basically there is no way for you to
be sure you were doing the right thing here you had to make the call on your
own and use your own judgment how did you handle it and how did you decide
what the right call was what's the point of this question is to see how
resourceful you can be and to get an insight on your thought process so in
most situations people when they have to make a hard decision and there's nowhere
to turn they panic and that's a normal normal response so how can you answer
this question better we're going to answer it again by telling the stories
and using the sorry formula so if you're not familiar with the sorry formula by
now it is situation action results and interesting features the sorry formula
comes in many forms sometimes it gulps are sometimes it
felts called star and it stands for situation or task action results it's
all the same so you want to tell a memorable and interesting story that
includes just enough detail to give the interviewer a good idea of the situation
you're in so let's get into it step one the situation setting this
stage so set up the situation starting with what was difficult about
the decision and how you stayed calm and we're able to think your way through it
what was the outcome that you were focused on getting
and how did you go about getting it step to the action you took what were the
actions that you took to get to the specific outcome that you were going for
you can talk about one two three actions here this is the meat of your answer you
want to focus most of your time here you want to focus on specifically what you
did to get to the results you wanted step 3
results what happened in the end how did the situation turn out a good story has
to have a happy ending so what you want to do is make sure that you wrap it up
neatly with what happened and how you got there don't leave them wondering
step 4 so this is a bonus step but it really is
the icing on the cake interesting features so interesting features could
be highlighting the learning whatever it was that you learned how are you
different today in this experience what would you do differently next time
there we have it what's your go-to response when you're faced with a
difficult decision how do you deal when there's nowhere to go there's nobody to
ask and there's no visible resources to colour-pop how did you proceed what
logic or rationality you use to come up with a result that you did how did it
turn out thank you so much for watching if you'd like help with more of these
questions I've put together a guide and it's very
comprehensive it's got ten plus examples of the most common questions you can
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sorry formula and the psychology behind it break it down step by step a series
of concrete examples for the top 10 most commonly asked situational questions and
fill in the blank templates already done for you so that you can get going on
your own answers and if you're still getting stuck because preparing these
stories is a challenge I've also included 25 questions that you can ask
yourself to come up with your own stories much quicker and more
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thanks for watching and I'll see you on the other side and next week Jeremy next
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