Describe your multitasking skills and approach.
This will help them assess your approach to your work. Being singularly focused is a strength, so long as you're able to shift gears and exhibit flexibility when the need arises. Multitasking is challenging for most people. How you track your progress and pick up where you left off on a task you had to shelf when more pressing priorities took precedent is important. Staying productive and preventing rework is part of this. Your ability to exhibit sound judgment and prioritize based on the greater good of the team is of equal relevance.
Talk about the tools and resources you used to plan your work and stay organized on the job. Exhibit strong time management skills while considerating exploring what standards are used to prioritize work. Display an ability to assess the timing, commercial importance, and positive externalities of other priorities. Additionally, convey your ability to follow the chain of command, and know when to tap into the resources on the job.
"The first greatest achievement of the human race was discovering and being able to control fire. So, I like to imagine that every goal is the spark of an idea set in motion. Every goal generates work, and some are closer and burn more brightly than others. So, I like to think that I am harnessing the power of fire, or ideas. Whichever burns the brightest and closest needs to be tended to first, then the next brightest. I don't like to say I am putting out fires, but rather harnessing the fire. So, I look at task management through this lens. I look at everything that needs tending to, evaluate which is burning brightest, and prioritize accordingly."
