If you want to stand out in a job interview, you'll need more than just the right outfit or an impressive resume; you've got to show off your ability to tackle challenges and solve problems. Employers ...

Over the course of your interview, the hiring manager needs to figure out a few things. She needs to get a better sense of how your skills and experience line up with the open role. She needs to ...

When groups of people get stuck on a problem–whether over culture, systems, process, understanding, or something else–the best solutions can come from asking the right questions. This question, cited ...

Ask about a major job-related problem. While all of the questions are important, the problem-solving question is my favorite. It reveals job-specific problem-solving, insight, intelligence, potential, ...

Turns out I’m good at problem-solving. I know this because I just spent four months on a property renovation that should’ve been on “Property Disasters from Hell” (or similar title). Everything that ...

Seventy kindergarten children who had spent the year solving a variety of basic word problems were individually interviewed as they solved addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, multistep, ...

To solve basic math operations — and more complicated ones down the road — kids need problem-solving skills and number sense. Number sense is the ability to understand what numbers mean, how they ...