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At Medtronic, we do a lot of cross functional team projects. Tell me about a project team you've been on and your role.
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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.
If you thought group projects ended in college, you were wrong! Most organizations have their share of project work on top of the day-to-day work. Walk the interviewer through a successful project where you played a big role.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"At my company, I was selected to represent my department in a larger project team to implement a new CRM system. We met weekly, sometimes twice a week, for about 12 months. My role was to make sure our old CRM system data was converted into the new one and was organized in a useful way. I collaborated with IT and the project manager for the new system to make sure the data was useful and organized. When the new system launched, our old and rich data was there and useable so that we could maintain relationships with our customers seamlessly."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In college, we had to do a big project in my Marketing class where we created an advertising campaign for a local business. I was in a group with four people, none of which I knew very well. We started talking to figure out where people's strengths were, and there was a more technical person, one who was a good presenter and communicator, a financial person, and me, the creative person. We all had particular skills but came together to help on the different pieces. We pitched our idea, and the business we had modeled wanted to implement the majority of our ideas."
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I was part of the production scale-up project team. My role was to validate a duplicated subassembly line in the cleanroom. We met weekly in the cleanroom for three months. I collaborated with the equipment engineering team to make sure all equipment got calibrated and set up correctly in the production. As the equipment is calibrated and set up in the assembly line and passed IQ. I started performing OQPQ with the Quality Engineering team. We then reported back to the Project Manager that the subassembly line is ready for production. As the duplicated line is launched, production is able to double its volume without any issues. It was a successful project.
Stephanie's Feedback
This is a well-rounded response that reflects your contributions effectively. Good for you!
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My previous roles involved teams of various types of engineers. I would interact with systems engineers to review requirements for testability. I would interact with hardware and software engineers to discuss any defects I found with the system. Many of the documentation involved an approval from various groups and organizations. I would interact with them to gain approval and resolve any questions or comments.
Amanda's Feedback
I like that you describe the different professionals you collaborated with and how. You can strengthen your response by sharing what your role or job title was, how you interacted with the various groups or stakeholders to investigate/understand problems, build consensus, or delegate tasks.
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