Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Mock Interview
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Talk about a time that you applied a new technology or new information to your work as an engineer?
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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.
During your career as an engineer up to this point, you've likely had to learn and work with new technology or information that has improved the way that you perform your work. Ideally with this question, your interviewer is looking to see that you are flexible in working with new technologies and/or processes as you consults across different businesses and industries. Prior to your interview, think of an example of a time that showed your ability to be open to new ways of doing things through advancements in technology and talk about why this ability is important in a consulting role.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"Having been an engineer for over 20 years, today's digital age has certainly altered the way that we work on a day to day basis and I've loved every minute of being on the forefront of these changes. In my current role, I am utilizing nanotechnology that wasn't available even five years ago to create UV resistant and waterproof glass that just wasn't able to be produced before. I'd love to help bring innovation to the clients here at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in this consultant role."
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I was personally involved in the search for, hosting demonstrations of, purchasing, installing, and training on a universal testing machine for mechanical properties of polymer materials. I served as the POC for communications for the purchase and installation and I am the manager for that instrument. We purchase this instrument for posterity's sake as our lab moves toward more polymer research as our collaborators' instrument produced very noisy and unreliable data. We have now had this unit operational for a month and have gotten very high-quality data off of it.
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This is a great response! You do an excellent job of illustrating how you've utilized new technology in a manner that optimizes quality and productivity.
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