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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Fonterra's dairy production services involve many customers, from the frontline farmers that milk is sourced from to the end consumer that is purchasing the milk, cheese, and other products. No matter what job you are interviewing for with the company, having a great sense of what customer service will entail will be important to your interviewer. With this question, your interviewer wants to know if you've taken any formal customer service training throughout your career.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In my career in sales, I've taken part in industry trainings on listening skills, communications skills, and upselling. As Fonterra's next services area manager, I think the skills I've developed as part of these trainings will help me work very effectively with the farmers in my territory. I'll come to your team with the ability to listen to their needs and discuss new services that we would be able to provide for them."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"While I haven't been a part of any formal customer service training, my time working as a mechanical engineer has helped me develop very solid skills in this area. I know that my internal customers here will be the engineers that I lead and the production staff we are servicing. If you were to call any of my references, you'd quickly find out that I'm a great communicator and always focus on the needs of those I am working with. I understand that my job is to help make the lives of production staff easier here at Fonterra and this will always be a main focus for me."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Talk openly to your interviewer about any formal customer service training you have received. This training could be in the form of an onboarding plan, on-the-job training, coursework, or even books that you have read or podcasts you have tuned into. In the end, no matter what training you have received in the past, you need to show that you are aware of who your customers are in the role you are interviewing for and how you will always bring excellent service as part of the Fonterra team.

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