How to Answer: How would working for ADP aid in your five-year plan?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for an ADP job interview.
27. How would working for ADP aid in your five-year plan?
Why the Interviewer Asks This Question
This question is used to assess your commitment to the organization and role you are competing for and how well your goals align with the goals of their company. Your answer may determine whether this is the right job for you or if it's the right job for right now. You should create a five-year plan for your career if you haven't already.
Written by Kevin Downey on May 16th, 2022
How to Answer
Thoroughly research the position and their work culture and before the interview determine how your goals align with theirs. If you haven't already, put together a five-year career plan. You should be ready to revise your five-year career plan every year, determining where you are and building again from there, so you can adjust accordingly.
Written by Kevin Downey on May 16th, 2022
1st Entry Level Example
"My goal is to grow within your company and learn the skills and knowledge I need to advance into a sales management position in the next few years. I want to find a home with an organization that offers stability and growth, and I think I would find that with ADP."
Written by Jaymie Payne on November 13th, 2022
1st Answer Example
"I see myself in a position where I evolve into a go-to clutch player for my team leaders, inheriting more responsibility, and ushering my team to greater success while helping orient those who are newer to the team. In five years, I expect I will be even closer to achieving my career goals and setting my eyes on newer goals I haven't even thought of yet."
Written by Kevin Downey on May 16th, 2022
2nd Answer Example
"Great question. I just revisited my five-year career goals, which I do once every year or two, depending on where I am in my development. In the next three years, I've set some pretty aggressive goals for myself, learning and picking up new skills and experiences while I advance my career. Once I've completed my onboarding in my next position, I hope to grow within the department, achieving incremental success that inches toward our mutual goals. I have some charts with me that detail my plan if you'd like me to share."
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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