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By Janell Hazelwood | Published November 9, 2011 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

Describe your flexible management style. There can be a perception that over-50 job seekers have become set in their ways and are reluctant to change how they manage. Describe how you modified your approach to fit different challenges and varied business cultures. For example, you could discuss how you altered management style when working on special projects. Detail how you had to adjust to changing priorities, make quick decisions with limited information, produce with fewer resources, and manage individuals on a team that did not report to you. You can also talk about how you responded to unanticipated threats to your business such as late shipments, a product recall, loss of a major client, or a new government regulation.

Describe your flexible management style.
There can be a perception that over-50 job seekers have…