How to Answer: At ADP we like to recognize our most dedicated employees. How do you like to be recognized for your accomplishments?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for an ADP job interview.
3. At ADP we like to recognize our most dedicated employees. How do you like to be recognized for your accomplishments?
Why the Interviewer Asks This Question
We all like to be recognized in some way for our accomplishments in the workplace. Whatever type of recognition you prefer, your answer to this question will give your interviewer a better idea of your work ethic and how ADP can best support you.
Written by Elisabeth Walter
How to Answer
Share with the interviewer how you would like to be known for your hard work at ADP. This might be through gifts, financial perks, public recognition, kind words, title recognition, or something else completely.
Written by Rachel Hills on November 13th, 2022
1st Entry Level Example
"I value kind words, and when someone takes the time to send me a handwritten note or email. I also appreciate public recognition, like a shout-out on a team call or a blurb in a team newsletter. I also appreciate it when someone asks me to teach someone else something. I think that's the highest form of flattery and recognition!"
Written by Jaymie Payne on November 13th, 2022
1st Answer Example
"I am motivated by knowing something about the end customer and being able to relate to them as a person. A personal touch is always helpful for me. In addition, at my previous company, management incentivized employees through the benefits program. I also found this to be motivating!"
Written by Rachel Hills on November 13th, 2022
2nd Answer Example
"I am very much an over-achiever and find that the best way for me to be recognized for a job well done is to be given words of kindness and recognition. I am easily encouraged, and the best reward for me is to know that my hard work is being noticed."
Written by Jaymie Payne on November 13th, 2022
About the Author
When I started my career in business management, branding, and marketing, I mistakenly assumed hard work and integrity alone would get me noticed. Back then, I assumed the harder I worked, the faster I’d rise through the ranks. Yet, even in a meritocracy, this is rarely the case.
The goals of my peers competed with mine, and too often, they were better at getting noticed for their accomplishments. And, some of them were all too happy to watch me working harder, as they worked smarter, rising through the ranks faster than me. At one point, a boss of mine labeled me a stealth worker. They said they had no idea I was the one performing all that great work. If only I’d drawn more attention to what I was doing, maybe I would have gotten rewarded for it. So I learned most of my leadership skills the hard way, and the journey was long.
As a leader, my favorite part of the job came to be coaching others. I took pride in sharing the secrets to my eventual success, and offering my outside-of-the-box view of the role. Where other leaders were only in it for themselves, I was genuinely in it for the company and the team. So I taught those I mentored not only what they needed to do, and how to do the job right, but why each step was important. I spelled out how everything fit into the big picture and shared every trick of the trade that no one shared with me. Every single individual I mentored advanced far ahead of their peers, surpassing those who were only in it for themselves.
Another favorite part of the job was recruiting and building the perfect teams. For me, conducting an interview was an art form. I later volunteered my services at career fairs and trade schools, offering advice, from crafting the perfect CV and resume, to delivering a perfect interview, to negotiating a decent raise. Now I am a full-time writer, and left my management career behind me. Yet, I still love coaching others to succeed, and I love writing for mockquestions.com for this very reason.
Here’s what I said to a friend of mine whom I mentored a long time ago: “Every single thing you do, at every stage, can alter the perception others have of your professional worth. My goal is to make you look like an asset worth fighting for.”
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