Question: In your opinion, what formal training have you had that help you most in your career?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

What educational training have you had that helped your career?

Follow-up questions:

Please elaborate how the training helped you.
Did you volunteer to participate in that training?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Knowledge/Skill Based

Skills:

Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment)

Abilities:

Cognitive – Category Flexibility (Mental Flexibility)

Other Factors:

Motivation/Ambition/Aspiration,Personal Improvement (Growth),Self-Awareness

Work Activity (Task):

Mental Processes – Developing Objectives and Strategies,Mental Processes – Judging the Value of Things, Services, or People,Work Output – Quality Improvement

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation)

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The candidate’s ambition and aspiration in life.
Answers that reveal that the candidate is an achiever and a go-getter.

Red Flags to Watch For:

The candidate’s lack of ambition and aspiration in life.

Sample Answer:

As a first time line manager, this seminar that I have attended about leadership really helped me a lot. We were provided with tools to perform well and up to now, I am still applying the learnings I’ve gained through that program.

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