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How do you ensure that you have a healthy work-life balance in your career?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
In the fast paced world in software and technology development, heavy work loads and potential on-call duties have created a lot of burnout in professionals. Your interviewer is looking to hear that you are cognizant of the risks of burnout and that you do what is necessary to maintain your own personal health and well being and that of your family as well. While you can use this time to talk about personal interests or hobbies outside of work, try to focus on how these items help keep you refreshed for the work that you'll be doing for Amazon AWS.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As I am passionate about my career as a UX designer, I am also passionate about my family. Any moments outside of work are spent coaching my kids traveling baseball teams in the summer months and then spending as many weekends as possible on the ski slopes. These activities help keep me active, physically fit and keep my mind centered on what it truly important in my life when work weeks get stressful."
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I believe having a foundational passion for what you do will ensure that you are always maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Of course, things come up and life is unpredictable, but if you are excited about what you do, the challenge of being tasked with a last-minute assignment should intrigue you. Creating harmless competitions for yourself, to me, sounds exciting. For example, seeing how fast and accurate I can complete a task 30 minutes before my shift ends adds healthy spontaneity to my life, ultimately making me better.
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I really encourage you to remove 'you' language and generalizations from your interview responses. The interviewer will notice a lack of personalized and direct answers. It can be a challenging shift for many people, but it makes all the difference :) If you were in a focused, one-on-one conversation and the person asked you this question, it would be more natural to say, "I ensure a healthy work-life balance by doing A, B, C' versus giving a lesson to the person by saying 'you, you, you.' If you need more clarification on that, I am happy to expand!
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