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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Your interviewer is curious whether you can distinguish ambition from capability. Part of Klarna's culture is what they call "ownership and impact." Taking on more responsibility is only impressive when you can follow through on seeing your commitments through. This question is about taking ownership and delivering high-impact results. "Traditional companies ask you to follow their playbook. At Klarna, we ask you to write your own. Here, every voice matters. We're organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space. So no matter where you sit, you have a direct line to the action your team takes and real end-to-end ownership of the things you create."

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"With any project that I am working on, I make sure to set benchmarks to meet deadlines ahead of time and set early personal deadlines to allow for some wiggle room. To do this, I am a proponent of using the Microsoft Outlook calendar and tasks functions to help keep me organized. I find this method helps me stay on track with multiple projects while also leaving me wiggle room each day to fight the high needs fires that do come up in this job."

Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"To stay on track, I take ten minutes at the end of each day to recap what was accomplished, what new came up on my task list, and re-prioritizing my work for the next day. Then, upon arriving the next day and working through emails from the previous evening, I can adjust my task list for the day if needed. I tend to set aside two hours per day to work on long-term project needs while focusing most of my time on the short-term needs."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
It's important to showcase how you've taken charge of your development and share your knowledge of what you are capable of, your limitations, and your plan to expand them. When answering this question, detail how you manage multiple projects at the same time. Describe the steps you take to plan, track, and manage multiple deadlines. How do you coordinate, communicate, and plan for success?

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I think of myself as a self-organized person. When handling multiple projects, I review all the documents and background materials to ensure that there are no real conflicts between them, such as resource conflict, deadline conflict, or other conflicts that will impact the project. Then, I make a detailed plan for each project with short-term goals and long-term goals, and a timeline. I also set my personal deadline. I use some tools to keep track of progress such as JIRA, excel, calendars. I also review my tasks by the end of the day and prioritize tasks based on requirements for the next day.
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Great! It sounds like you have a lot of processes in place to keep yourself organized so you can work on multiple projects simultaneously. In addition, it's great that you mention some of the tools you use to remain organized. Consider talking more about how you prioritize projects by urgency and importance so you know you're working on the highest priority project before others. Nice job!
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