"During my time working as a lab tech, I really looked forward to working with people from other departments because life in the lab setting can get a little lonely at times. Recently, our department was prompted to re-evaluate some of our processes and procedures to help in timeliness of highly important samples. I worked with the leadership in our Oncology department as well as our compliance department to evaluate how we triage work requests. I was very comfortable working with people from upper levels of management because I had confidence in my knowledge and ability as a subject matter expert in our lab. In the end, we developed a new triage system that put high needs Oncology readings as a top priority."

"As an executive assistant, I have to continuously utilize my people skills to build relationships with all departments in my current organization as well as with outside customers. Last year, I helped take the lead in the interview days for a new CFO that we were hiring for. I partnered with our HR Manager to plan interview days and I met regularly with key department directors in several units that would be part of the interview. The two candidates interviewing were very high profile candidates and we wanted them to have the best experience on their visit. By me taking the ball and organizing the entire group, the interview days went very smoothly and we had an accepted offer for the position within two weeks of the interview days."