Hydrologist Interview Questions
1. When is listening important on your job? When is listening difficult?
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1. When dealing with many parties or in an orderly conversation listening is important. However, in an out of control screaming or inappropriate manner listening is difficult.
2. What keeps your motivated?
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1. I am naturally a positive thinker
I always focus on the future possible achievements and promotions that can arise if I remain focused.
3. What are your career goals?
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1. To assume more managerial roles and responsibilities
To lead big projects such as large transboundary rivers.
4. What are your greatest weaknesses?
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1. Prioritizing things and meeting deadlines. But I am working on it.
5. What are your greatest strengths?
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1. I have enormous determination and commitment for getting things done
I am creative.
6. What skills are essential to this position?
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1. Team work skill, being able to work with computer programmer like matlab and ArcGIS, good at field work and collecting data and recording all the necessarily data.
7. What sort of tools do you use for your job?
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1. Softwares, support tools like GIS, data reduction in excel, acess database sources.
8. What does your daily job entail?
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1. Data entry, data extraction & manipulation, input data to computer code to run simulations.
9. What is the most difficult part about being a hydrologist for you?
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1. To be not as accurate as the public want to hear. The public's lack of understanding of the overall evaluation process for permit that a hydrologist has to go in order to come up with prediction & uncetainity.
10. What do you like least about being a hydrologist?
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1. Uncertainty in input data and lack of data for hydrological models.
11. How important do you think Hydrology has become?
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1. Water is like.
Resolving of conflicts and water scarcity.
12. Tell us about a time that you had to adapt to a difficult situation.
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1. When I worked outside my country, different culture and environmental conditions
I had to quickly realize that I was getting affected and I worked by communicating to my supervisor who helped me to adjust quickly.
13. How did you assign priorities to jobs?
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1. I consider available resources and the impact of the job. I also consult others on their views.
14. What have been some of your most creative ideas?
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1. Use of GIS tools in water quality monitoring.
Developed an information system for the basin.
15. Why is it a concern that some of the countries aquifers are being depleted?
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1. Surface water resources are being depleted due to climate change and are polluted such that groundwater has emerged as an alternative for water supply.
16. What are your thoughts on the current California drought?
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1. The country needs to adapt and prepare.
17. What makes you the best person for this job?
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1. Good interpersonal skills
Experienced
Demostrated strengths in the past job.
18. How reliable of a worker are you?
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1. I am hard working and so determine to achieve goals. I am good in co relating my theoretical knowledge partically to solve the problems.
19. What do you like most about being a Hydrologist?
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1. Everything. It is highly useful in planning, managing and protecting water resources.
20. How do you handle stressful situations?
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1. I denntfy sources of stress
Talk to someone
Eat and rest properly.