Band 7: Describe a challenging project you worked on, either alone or as part of a team. You should say: - What the project was about - What challenges you faced - What your role was And explain what you learned from this experience. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I would like to talk about a challenging project that I worked on recently. Since I joined a new job, the goal was to open a new grocery store. Our team project was to build as many vendor relationships as we could because we would be ordering from them soon. So, since this was the plan, we all started contributing our part towards it, and everybody was contacting vendors, as I was doing. What made it difficult was that many vendors were not responding to us through emails and calls. It was challenging because we were on a deadline, and we were already past the deadline, in fact, and the vendors still hadn't contacted us. Out of 800 vendors, we could only manage to reach 500, and my role was to follow up with the 300 remaining vendors to find out why they were not responding to us. It could be because they felt we were not legitimate, or perhaps they did not want to build a relationship with us. My job was to gather all this information and then update upper management.

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I would like to talk about a challenging project which I have worked on recently. Since I joined a new job and the goal was to open a new grocery store, our team project was to build as many vendor relationships as we can because we would be ordering from them soon. So since this was the plan, we all started on contributing our bit towards it and everybody was contacting vendors as I was doing it. And what made it difficult was that a lot of vendors were not responding to us through emails and through calls. And it was challenging because we were on a deadline and we were way over the deadline in fact and the vendors still didn’t contact us. So out of 800 vendors, we could only manage to have 500 and my role was to basically follow up to all the 300 remaining vendors so that we can see why they are not responding to us as it may be because they feel like we are not legit or is it maybe that they do not want to build a relationship with us. So my job was basically to just get all this information and then update the upper management.

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