BAE Systems Mock Interview

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Question 29 of 40

How do you manage your time?

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Karrie Day

Karrie Day is a certified career coach and strategist with a passion for helping her clients define and reach their professional goals. She offers career advancement services such as brand development, resume writing and critiques, job search strategies,

Time management is a self-regulating behavior required for success in many professional roles. Describe how you ensure that you stay on task and achieve your goals on a daily and long-term basis.

Kimberly Hallman

Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.

"I will determine which project requires my attention by the number of hours we are behind and the project size. I am comfortable delegating tasks when needed, but I am also aware that these times will require additional hours from me. Never have I underdelivered on a deadline."

Karrie Day

"Time management has been something I have worked on improving since my time in University. I set goals for myself and give a time deadline for those goals. Also, I am diligent with my calendar and have a great scheduling app on my phone that I refer to as well."

Karrie Day

Remember to describe any tools you use to manage your time. You might mention a calendar, a to-do list, or specific time management apps. You may also use long-term planning tools such as roadmaps or project plans, depending on your work.

Karrie Day

"The first thing I do is to work with my superiors to understand the expectation for how my time should be spent. For example, as an entry level software engineer it would be important to know how much time I should spend coding, debugging, automating, shadowing, networking, etcetera.

On a day-to-day basis, I like to develop a high level plan with specific goals first thing in the morning. I keep it flexible to allow for new requests or unexpected challenges. I review my progress at the end of each day and put in extra time as needed to ensure my work is completed on time."

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This is an interesting question because while this is one of my major strengths, I think I improved a lot over the last 3-4 years, mainly due to managing two jobs and my full-time university studies simultaneously.
I strongly believe that the secret of managing time well is being able to identify priorities and set targets. Targets are great, as they provide an opportunity to review performance against something measurable. I tend to use OneNote a lot, as it has tremendous potential to organize tasks, and it is also able to save documents (even emails) so that I can keep everything in one place.

Krista's Feedback

Great job including your use of OneNote to organize your day!

Anonymous Answer

I use the calendar on my phone that I use for major events or deadlines that are coming up. I then use to-do lists to break down the deadlines into smaller manageable tasks. For long-term projects, I have previously used Gantt charts which have also helped me to split up big projects.

Marcie's Feedback

Great! It sounds like you already have several methods and tools in place that help you manage your time. You might also mention that you prioritize projects based on urgency and importance, batch similar tasks, and/or set time limits. In addition, consider including an example here that walks the interviewer through an instance when you successfully managed your time. This will further strengthen your answer. Nice job!

Anonymous Answer

I first communicate with my teachers to understand a rough idea of how much time I should be spending on certain things, such as homework, projects, and additional work (for example programming practice). By gaining this insight on how much time I need to put into my school work I can then create a flexible timetable that considers my other commitments outside of school so that I can use my time efficiently. I design my timetable so that I can complete tasks well within their deadlines so that there is space if something unplanned comes up, allowing myself a chance to complete the work before the deadline.
I like to chunk time together and set it aside for a certain thing, for example, when creating my current timetable I sectioned off two hours to work on coding a couple of times a week. These two hours would be dedicated to any sort of coding I needed or wanted to do and I could split the time however best suits me on that day for the task I am doing. But by sectioning off a chunk of time to do so I know that I have time to get on with or complete a coding task. As well, throughout each day I allow spaces on my timetable so that I can have a break from work or school and participate in a relaxing hobby such as baking or walking.

How do you manage your time?

40BAE Systems plc Interview Questions & Answers

1.At BAE Systems, we seek to hire only those with aerospace experience. Are you more experienced in the private or public aerospace industry?

2.The aerospace and defense industries are ever-changing. At BAE Systems, we seek to hire individuals with a keen interest in this industry. How do you stay up to date on aerospace related current events?

3.In your opinion, what is the biggest breakthrough in the aerospace and defense industry in the past decade?

4.There are numerous career avenues you can take with BAE Systems. Which career path interests you the most?

5.Because of the nature of business at BAE Systems, we conduct background checks on employees. This includes criminal background, credit, and education verification checks. Are you willing to comply?

6.At BAE Systems, we have some strong competitors. In your opinion, what makes us stand out from the others?

7.Our goal is to be the top-rated company in our industry. After researching BAE Systems, what do you think we could improve on?

8.We are looking for specific post-secondary education for this role. Tell me about your post-secondary education and how it will help you in this position with BAE Systems.

9.Confidentiality is of utmost importance to us at BAE Systems. Are you willing to sign a confidentiality agreement if hired?

10.Many of our industry competitors have their employees under a non-compete contract. Are you bound by any non-compete contract with your current employer?

11.How do you like to be recognized for your accomplishments?

12.Would you say you focus more on the reasons a change will not work rather than adapting to new changes?

13.Have you progressed in your career as you expected?

14.Who would you say inspires you?

15.Rate your communication skills from 1-10 with proper examples backing your given rating.

16.It seems that your resume is missing certain skills necessary for this position. How do you plan to compensate for these missing skills?

17.Tell me about an achievement you are proud of. What did you find challenging about it?

18.How do you like to encourage ideas in others?

19.If you were given a choice, which work related task would you leave for last? Why?

20.How do you think your early career will help you succeed in this position?

21.How do you define success?

22.How have you demonstrated leadership ability when you were not in a leadership role?

23.Your workload will be large at BAE Systems. How do you balance life and work?

24.How often do you think of innovations that will improve your work performance?

25.What is your current salary?

26.Looking at your resume, I see multiple gaps between employments. What were you doing during those gaps?

27.Do you believe it is possible to be a good team member and disagree with the leader?

28.Are you actively interviewing with other companies, and are you close to offer stage with anyone?

29.How do you manage your time?

30.Other than the position, why do you want to work at BAE Systems?

31.What benefits are important to you as an employee of a company?

32.Inclusion is of the utmost importance here at BAE Systems. What makes you feel included?

33.This position requires Top Secret level security clearance. What is your current security clearance status?

34.What do you think will be the focus of the aerospace industry 20 years from now?

35.What level of experience do you have managing and developing personnel?

36.The success of BAE Systems relies on our employees ability to innovate. What innovation area are you interested in contributing to at BAE Systems?

37.Can you name a recent BAE Systems news headline or notable story?

38.What questions do you have for me?

39.Community investment is an important part of the culture at BAE Systems. Which of our investment programs excites you the most?

40.We are proud of our Protect the Planet initiatives. Can you name one of the ways we are working towards improving sustainability?