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Question 27 of 40
Describe an occasion you had too many things to accomplish and you were required to prioritize other goals before your own.
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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.
"It was time to prioritize my thesis when realized I had too many things going on. I wanted my Applications and Technology Solutions Club in college to continue on, yet my successors needed more guidance and kept reaching out. The club was struggling and their leadership was being challenged. I was also training the new assistant manager at the cafe, and they kept reaching out with lots of questions, lacking confidence in their new role. So I realized I had to put my thesis on hold to get everyone else up to speed. I wanted to move fast, so I spent the next week developing training guides for both the cafe and the club. I oriented both groups with their prospective guides as resources and got everyone up to speed."
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 will help the interviewer determine whether you prioritize your needs above that of the team. It will help them gauge the level of your ambition, and evaluate your time management skills. Being able to determine your potential, and navigate where you are in your development, is what this question hopes to reveal.
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.
The strength of your answer should be in your ability to set aside your own goals and ambitions, prioritizing the need for the greater good. Prioritizing other goals over your own isn't necessarily a bad thing. It simply means you instinctually did the right thing and what the team required of you. Frame your answer through this lens.
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.
The Accenture Internship Program advertises "real-world knowledge through hands-on experience" and being mentored by their leaders throughout the internship. It's about more than learning their systems and technology. It's about learning from your mistakes as you grow into a leadership role.
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