Department of Justice Mock Interview
Practice 30 Department of Justice interview questions covering legal reasoning, ethics, and public service commitment.
Question 7 of 30
Tell me about a time you foresaw a potential problem and what you did to avoid it.
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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.
Working in the Department of Justice requires high-level attention to detail and constant awareness of one's surroundings. This includes the ability to identify suspicious behavior or anything out of the norm of the routine established by adhering to the rules. This question seeks to find out how your work experience correlates with what they expect of the role for which you're applying. They're also curious about how by-the-book and professional your daily course of action is, and how effective your observation skills and attention to detail are.
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.
They'll want to hear an example of when you have put your skills into action in a comparable role. Use the STAR method to help you answer. This means you will want to provide a situation, your task in that situation, the action you took, and the results provided by your course of action.
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.
"There was an inmate in holding that was waiting to be escorted to court who was exhibiting some troubling behavior. It was the way they were fidgeting and flailing their arms about that caught my attention. I kept my eye on the situation from a safe distance. I alerted an officer, and just as I was bringing the matter to their attention, they turned violent. The officer quickly intervened."
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