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Tell me about your attendance record.
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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.
ADP's payroll software also serves as a scheduling software, employee time clock, with a dozen other similar features as well. So attendance is inherently part of their culture. If your attendance was remarkable, advertise this. Share how your time management skills are strong, and how you made efforts to arrive to work early every day. If there were ever extenuating circumstance where you were late, explain the situation, and the steps you took to help out the team as a result, such as calling work to alert them that you might be late, so they can adjust and plan accordingly. Doing so suggests you have the team spirit ADP look for in their candidates.
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.
Here are some of the features ADP advertises their software is capable of in regards to monitoring attendance: "Managing schedules, hours worked and time off is critical for payroll accuracy and compliance. Time & attendance solutions from ADP make it easier. Track time simply by enabling employees to use their computer or phone. Create, publish, and manage schedules online. Handle time-off requests, approvals and vacations. Employees can clock in and out, record a meal break and transfer their time between departments, locations or jobs. Monitor hours worked and overtime to help control costs. See who's on the job or if anyone was late or absent."
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.
"Well, I have pretty strong time management skills and prepare for my morning the night before. Packed lunch, coffee maker ready, clothes laid out, gas tank full, every detail taken into account. That way, should anything come up, like a traffic incident that wasn't anticipated, then I have extra time plotted in for such contingencies, and hopefully I'll still arrive at work early. Yet, if it looks like I may be late, well, I will call into work and give them plenty of heads up for the possibility so they can adjust their priorities if need be. In this fashion, I think I have maybe been late to work 3-4 times last year."
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