At Medtronic, we recognize the personal worth of our employees, and we give our employees opportunity to advance in their careers. What are your ultimate career goals?
Medtronic puts time and resources into educating, developing, and promoting the careers of their staff, and your interviewer will be looking to gain insight into what your ultimate career goals are. For your answer, you'll have to show dedication to the job you are interviewing for while showing a drive to succeed in bigger and better things. Be honest about your career goals down the road and talk about any succession planning you have already done to achieve those goals. Be sure to research Medtronic to ensure that your personal career goals line up with a future career with the organization.
"After my discharge from the military, I used my experience there to pursue a career in warehousing. My personal goal is to someday prove my worth and knowledge in the field and be promoted into a Warehouse Manager or Director position. To make this goal come true, I am now actively pursuing my bachelor's degree in Business Management part-time, and I'd look to pursue an MBA part-time after that."
"Having worked field sales in another industry for a few years and now looking to delve into the medical device industry, I would like to become a territory or product line sales manager. I am a natural leader who has developed and implemented many great sales and service strategies, and I'd love the bring these ideas to leading a sales staff in the field. If hired for this position, I would be focused on learning the medical device field and becoming a successful sales rep here at Medtronic. I would look to prove my skills as a salesman and my ability to lead those that I work with to get to achieve my career goals."
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Anonymous Answer
My personal goal is to focus on supporting and improving the quality of the products. I would like to keep on educating myself and learning new skills. My ultimate careers goals are to become an NPI manufacturing engineer and transfer new products from R&D to production.
Stephanie's Feedback
This is a thoughtful and well-rounded response. You have clearly given thought to your future career goals and which areas you're most passionate about working to develop.
Anonymous Answer
My ultimate career goal is to work with medical devices in a way that I can impact peoples' lives every day. With test automation becoming more prevalent in test engineering, my goal is to educate myself on test automation and software development to better test medical devices in a cost-effective and timely manner.
Amanda's Feedback
Terrific! You've shared your end goal as well as how you see yourself reaching that goal by gaining expertise in test automation and software development. You can also strengthen your response by telling the interviewer if you see yourself taking leadership in a new way or moving into a more challenging role/job title to achieve your ultimate career goal.
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