Stress Tolerance

  • What pressures do you feel in your job? How do you deal with them?
  • Describe the highest-pressure situations you have been under in your job recently. How did you cope with them?
  • Tell me how you maintain constant performance while under time and workload pressures.
  • Describe the last time a person at work (students, co-worker, or boss) became irritated or lost his/her temper. What did they do? How did you respond? What was the outcome?
  • Tell me about some situations in which you became frustrated or impatient when dealing with (students, co-workers, or boss). What did you do?
  • Give me an example of when your ideas were strongly opposed by a co-worker or supervisor. What was the situation? What was your reaction? What was the result?
  • Tell me about a time when you were given more work than you could accomplish by the due date.  What did you do?