“Micromanaging” can mostly be observed as a dirty word but sometimes there is a great reason to micromanage. Most interviewers recognize this but they yet need to know that you recognize that micro managing has a time and place and that you’re not the sort of manager who give preferences to do everything themselves. Managers who attempt to do everything themselves are not actually leading. They’re going to be overworked, other workers are going to be unhappy, and less is going to get done. On event, you’re going to have to show to interviewers that you’re eager to give up responsibility and you are not a delegation control freak, no matter how difficult that may be.

Behavioral Interview Query: Few managers have difficulty giving up control of an activity or project even once they have delegated this to others. Provide me an instance of a time this has happened to you and tell me how you managed it and how did you proved that you’re not a delegation control freak?

The mere wrong answer to this query is going to be one that concentrates too much on your micromanagement. But then again, the query is inquiring you about your micromanagement. So how do you answer?

Concentrate on an answer that is understandable – for instance, if you had complexity giving up a task that you loved doing before you were promoted. Micromanagement is worse, but enjoying your job and simply not being utilized to someone else doing it for you is ideally reasonable.

“Before I was promoted as a SEO manager, I spent most of my time as a content writer. I had minor issue giving up the link building, but I actually loved the content writing. Once I was promoted I was no longer needed to write content and rather had to delegate it, I must claim that I surely struggled to give it away. I would check in mostly to see how the writer was doing and sometimes write some myself.

The reality was though, my new writer was turning in work and it was remarkable. Meanwhile I was getting backed up. That is when I recognized how significant it was to trust. I would yet edit the first 2 pages merely to make certain that she was on the right track, but if they were, I would comfortably move on and trust that she did a good job.”