Working on a team? (interview, temporary, job, company)
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It could either mean working on a complex project assigned to a focused group on a temporary basis, or it could also be that you worked for a company that organized staff into permanent teams. The work gets accomplished by a group rather than an individual on a daily basis.
They are asking whether you have worked as part of a group to accomplish a goal instead of working independently on specific tasks handed to you by someone else. They want to know if you know how to cooperate with others to achieve a goal.
Basically what it sounds like, you'd be working with other people to accomplish a collective goal. They want to know how well you work with other people, things like that.
You'll probably have a portion of a larger project to do, which is pretty common in the corporate world. What kind of job is this for specifically? Knowing the actual field or job would help answer the question.
Simply put, they want to know how well you play with others in the sandbox.
Team=a department with 2 or more people
Team= group of people brought together to work on a project
When answering these kind of questions, the interviewer generally wants to hear about what kind of team it was and your role on the team.
If you are a new college/high school graduate, you can reference extracurricular activities that involved teams.
If you have not worked on a team in prior positions then you should honestly answer 'no' and then talk about why you are interested in team work and what skills you could contribute to the team.
I told them in the interview I had no idea what they meant by that.
Well, sounds as if they were looking for someone with team experience. You probably eliminated yourself from consideration. Didn't you even play team sports in school? I'd suggest doing some reading about teamwork and how it is applied to the modern workforce.
I went for interview for corporate job and they asked "have you ever worked on a team?"
I had no idea what they were talking about. Do you know what they were getting at?
As an engineer, I have never NOT worked on a team. I wouldn't know what to do in a job where I was working solo. To develop and support a product it requires a very diverse team of people with many different disciplines, and they must all work in concert to deliver the design on time. Multiple team meetings every day that might have people at all levels of the organization.
Very Strange not to know the concept of team or teamwork as an employee.
Even if in the past it's only been your manager and you, that is still a team.
Have you only been working as a sole proprietor or one person business ? Is this your first job ever?
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