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Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
Risk management is a vital skill in project management. The interviewer will want to learn about how well you can identify risks ahead of time, and use your resources to mitigate these risks. In positioning your response, recall at least one instance and explain why you think it shows your competence in risk management. Examples of risks in technical projects will be an advantage.

Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
"At XYZ consultants, I was in charge of implementing an enterprise resource planning software. The system covered the entire employee lifecycle, which meant all employees will need to use it during recruitment, training, payroll processing, time-off applications, pay disputes, and the like. At the time, we were looking at a workforce of 1200 employees. I immediately marked the training schedule and effectiveness as a risk. Without a solid plan to train all 1200 employees, it won't matter how technically correct the system is because it will be useless if no one can use it properly. The root of the risk is that all 1200 workers will need to be pulled out from their usual tasks for at least one hour to be trained on the new software. We needed to assess how this would impact productivity, among other variables."
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