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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.
Jeff Bezos has said, "I've always tried hard to work only with people I admire. If you think about people you've admired in your life, they are probably people you've been able to learn from or take an example from. The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking."

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.
"I admire Jeff Bezos and his approach to leadership, innovation, and the impact he has had on the world and the future. I also admire him for the same reasons I admire Warren Buffett. These are two wise individuals whose intentions seem pure. They are also self-made from humble beginnings."

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.
"I admire Gretta Thunberg. She has made a huge impact campaigning for the environment globally and hasn't slowed down one bit. That's a kind of relentless determination you don't see that often."

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 is a little different from asking who your role model is. Admiring someone doesn't mean you necessarily model yourself after them. Instead, admiring someone means that you respect and approve of their approach. Amazon prides themselves in recruiting innovators and collaborative thinkers who aren't afraid to be challenged or proven wrong. They are looking for that level of emotional intelligence and consider it to be the recipe for success. This question aims to assess how like-minded you are in this regard.

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