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Question 17 of 35
How do you prioritize multiple projects when they all seem equally important?
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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.
Prioritizing is a skill that requires practice. This question will allow your interviewer to assess your skill level and where you are in your career development. For the less experienced, this question may seem more complicated than it is and may feel more daunting. Yet the answer is quite simple. All you need to do is share how you prioritize pressing short-term goals in balance with the big-picture goals. Share any systems you've developed for such things. Detail how skilled you are at managing your time and estimating what can be accomplished in any given time frame. Lastly, share that you can delegate or recruit help when necessary. This will assure them you can capably prioritize and juggle multiple responsibilities without dropping the ball or becoming emotionally overwhelmed.
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 love to keep running lists of everything I need to do, big or small. I've started utilizing a free project management software for lists and task categorization and then labeling them by the level of urgency. Whenever I set a deadline for myself, I will get notifications. This has helped me improve upon estimating timeframes for any given task. By estimating how long each task will take and taking advantage of gained time, I can tackle the quick to-dos whenever I have a few minutes between projects. I take care of the most time-sensitive issues first, and then move along to the equally important, but perhaps less time-sensitive items."
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 aim to be as effective as possible and use every minute of every day to my advantage. In my current role, I have three to five projects at once. I am the lead on some, the delegator on others, and the reviewer on others. I communicate the estimated timeframes it will take every person I've delegated to, based on their strengths and experience, and split up the roles and work responsibilities appropriately, setting realistic deadlines. My teams have a strong track record for being the most efficient with our time."
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.
Thoroughly read through their charter and find points you can incorporate into your answers when describing your approach to your work. Such as, "Take personal responsibility for your performance and the performance of your teams, the quality of your work, your development and career progression."
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