Question: In your experience, how do you prevent life’s stresses from affecting your work performance?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

How do you ensure that stressful situations in your personal life don’t affect your work performance?

Follow-up questions:

At the same time, how do you prevent work stresses from affecting your life?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Knowledge/Skill Based

Skills:

Basic – Critical Thinking,Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment),Basic – Science and Logic

Abilities:

Cognitive – Category Flexibility (Mental Flexibility)

Other Factors:

Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Adaptability/Flexibility,Analytical Thinking,Stress Tolerance

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The candidate’s logical thinking.
Answers that reveal flexibility when handling challenging and stressful situations.

Red Flags to Watch For:

The candidate’s illogical thinking.
Answers that reveal lack of flexibility when handling challenging and stressful situations.

Sample Answer:

In preventing stressful situations from affecting my work output, I make sure that I focus on the goal. You just have to deal with things professionally.

Question Source: https://resources.workable.com/interview-questions/