3M Mock Interview
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Question 8 of 33
Tell me about your ideal workplace culture.
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
This question is aimed at whether you identify their work culture as being ideally suited to what you are looking for in an employer, ensuring that this might be a mutually beneficial long-term fit, as opposed to a candidate who isn't sure this is a good fit, with no guarantee they'll stick around and is just looking for any placeholder job until something better comes along.
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I am interested in working within a culture, similar to 3M and their 15% culture atmosphere, where everyone's voice is heard, innovative ideas are encouraged, and special interests groups can gather, share, and collaborate. Also, fair wages, opportunities for continued education, and internal growth opportunities, with casual workplaces where autonomy is given and everyone is encouraged to act like a leader."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
3M brands their work culture a "15% Culture. For more than 70 years, 3M's unique 15% Culture has encouraged employees to set aside a portion of their work time to proactively cultivate and pursue innovative ideas that excite them. While coordinating with their manager to ensure day-to-day responsibilities are still executed, employees get the space to try something new and different, think creatively and challenge the status quo. Whether it's experimenting with a new technology, forming a special interest group around a fresh idea or finding a new way to run a process, our 15% Culture gives employees in all areas the license to innovate."
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