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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.
Market volatility, greed, underperformance, and tough clients can all contribute to high stress within the housing and financial services industries. For this question, your interviewer is looking to gain insight into your work and management style while also making sure that you maintain your composure amidst stress. While you talk openly about what causes you stress or discomfort, make sure that you also talk through the strategies you've developed to manage stress and not let it negatively impact your work.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I hold myself to high expectations, and this pressure and drive to succeed occasionally make me feel stressed out. However, I prioritize not letting stress get in the way of doing my job well and maintaining great relationships with clients. To help alleviate any pressure, I've learned to celebrate large and small victories, rely on my teammates when needed, and manage my time well. I'm comfortable explaining market volatility to my clients and reassuring them of its inevitability when they come to me worried about market losses. I've let go of any stress caused by factors outside my locus of control, like the aforementioned market volatility, and I also look for regulatory changes that adversely affect my clients."

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