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Give an example of a time you used data in analyzing risk for an organization. Did you utilize any tools in this process?
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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.
Gathering and analyzing data is an important step that any risk management professional must take during their evaluation processes. What's even more important than gathering and analyzing is putting the data to use to achieve results. For this question, talk in detail about a time that you used data in a working situation. Explain the tools, whether it was specific software or a spreadsheet, to help analyze and get results out of the data you collected.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As you can see from my resume, I've spent a good portion of my career working in the manufacturing industry. In that industry, a good deal of my risk focus was on employee safety and lost time prevention. When I took my current position, I analyzed data over the past ten years to find trends on workplace injuries that led to work comp claims. By using a very intricate Excel spreadsheet that I created, I was able to find a few different problem areas. From there, I worked with management and our safety coordinator to implement new work practices and policies moving forward."
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I have spent the majority of my career utilizing business intelligence and data tools such as SQL queries, Python for Analytics, and Power BI for data visualizations. I use these tools to generate insights which range from the frequency of loans containing errors and their impacts to due diligence analyses where I built dashboards to gauge the risk of a project delay due to lack of document turnaround.
Data has been a key tool, whether performing a regression or decision tree analysis in python to identify critical features or SQL reports to dive deep into business performance and my depth of experience using these tools combined with a desire to thoroughly understand the business and its operations allow me to fully leverage these insights.
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You do a great job of highlighting your previous experience using a variety of data analytics tools. Because this question asks, "Give an example of a time," I suggest having a specific instance in mind of a time when you used data to analyze risk for a company and be prepared to share that specific example, the tools you used, and the outcome.
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