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How do you prioritise when everything is urgent?

223 4,860 people practisedUpdated Aug 08, 2026Question 22 of 30
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Show a clear, repeatable method. Explain how you judge impact and urgency, how you communicate trade-offs and how you check priorities with stakeholders instead of guessing.

Example answer

"I start by listing everything and asking two questions for each task: what's the impact if it's late, and who's blocked by it? That usually separates the truly urgent from the loudly urgent. When two things genuinely compete, I bring the trade-off to my manager with a recommendation rather than a problem. Last month that helped us delay a low-impact report so we could fix a bug blocking a key customer."
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