![]() "I haven’t had any split second decisions in my recent internship, but at college there was recently an emergency medical situation where I needed to respond quickly. There were a lot of heroes that day…"Īn example of how to best answer this question for entry level candidates: She said I was her hero, but I think I did what anyone would do in that case. We got out of the building and within 15 minutes the South Tower had collapsed. It was tough going, but I made the decision that I wasn’t going to leave her there. I told her I was going to carry her down on my back and at first she objected. I asked her if she could stand up and she said she could. ![]() She told me to just keep going and she would wait there for someone to help. I encouraged her to keep going, but she had a partial disability and said she couldn’t go on. On the sixth floor, there was a woman sitting in the stairwell who couldn’t go any further. We were told to evacuate, but the elevators stopped working, so we were all going down the stairs. I was working in the World Trade Center the morning the planes hit the buildings. "Although my job itself doesn’t have any true split second decisions, probably the best example I can give you was on September 11, 2001. In this case, it can be personal, although not too personal.Īn example of how to best answer this question for experienced candidates: If not, tell about a time where you needed to respond quickly and made the right call. If you have a “hero” story, this is your opportunity to tell it. The best answer is when you were there to save the day for someone else. So answer first by saying you do not have a work situation (unless you truly do), then give a personal life situation where you had to make a split second decision. But outside of medical, split second decisions are not typically going to be required within a work context. Someone working in the medical field with typically have plenty of these. There may be some rare work situations that truly call for a split second decision. ![]() The best approach to answering this question: The intent is to find out how you handle quick decisions in the real world. So the interviewer is purposefully asking you a question to move your decision making outside the work environment to see how you handle it. By definition, you should not be making split second decisions in your at work, unless you work in the medical field or if they are of a personal nature, such as helping a work colleague who experienced a stroke, heart attack, etc. That’s typically not the case with this interview question. Why? Because you can normally come up with a work example or situation to provide as the content for your answer. Why the interviewer is asking this question: Tell me about a time you had to decide something quickly and later regretted your decision.ĭo you take your time in making decisions or make them quickly? Tough Interview Question - Give me an example of a time when you had to make a split second decision Give me an example of a time when you had to make a split second decision. ![]()
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