When was the last time you exhibited real leadership potential?
BlackRock is interested in forming long-term relationships and training and developing their employees in their brand of leadership rather than hiring from outside the company. "We identify and grow our leaders to help them achieve their career goals while driving our firm's future growth." Whether you have formal leadership experience or are interested in pursuing a leadership position, speak to those times you showed initiative and rose to the occasion to go to the batt for your team. Describe a time you took the lead on your professional development, and explain where you hope this opportunity with BlackRock could take your career.
BlackRock offers several leadership training programs, stating that they "aim to foster leadership at all levels. We know that a critical driver of our future growth is our ability to grow strong leaders. Our Leadership and Management Academy is available to all employees and provides access to world-class content to help build their leadership skills and behaviors."
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"One of our leaders asked me to step into a team project I wasn't part of. They were struggling, and it was clear they wouldn't meet their deadline. An inexperienced supervisor had assigned different members of the team to tasks that didn't play to their strengths. I stepped in, evaluated what was happening, restructured the team by reassigning tasks, and then coached them on the impact of their roles. We met that deadline in the end. The silver lining was that several individuals came to me for mentoring after the fact, wanting to improve in those areas where they'd been struggling. So we identified several growth opportunities as well."
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