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Tell me about a time you took initiative on your own.
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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.
Assure the interviewer that you are a go-getter and won't wait to be asked what to do. Walk them through a scenario where you took it upon yourself to fix something and didn't run to your leader with the problem.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I noticed we were taking at least two hours a week on a manual report that seemed to be a big waste of time. I started playing around in our system with the different reporting features and was able to test and customize a report that could take the place of the manual report. After my testing, I brought the idea to my boss, who made a few tweaks but was thrilled I had discovered a more efficient way to give customers the same information."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I noticed a huge skill gap in the team's use of Microsoft Excel & PPT. Because I come from a different industry, I had to utilize these tools a lot and volunteered to host a series of lunch & learns for anybody who wanted to brush up on them."
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I will constantly go to production. Sometimes, I would see that production needs some fixtures or tools to help them assemble the parts more efficiently. I would initiate a discussion with my boss and present to him how the new fixture or tools could help increase productivity. I will not be shy to share my ideas with production and would definitely get feedback from them.
Stephanie's Feedback
This shows a high level of initiative, but I suggest focusing on a specific time when you needed to show this initiative. Do you have a specific instance in mind? This will take your answer from good to great!
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When I was a new hire, I worked on a project with two other new hires where we ended up struggling to finish dry running all the procedures due to a lack of knowledge about test setup and the overall system. I wanted to mitigate this for incoming new hires as I gained more knowledge so I took the initiative to create a test guide complete with instructions on how to set up the different systems for all the different types of tests as well as regular operation.
Amanda's Feedback
You've done a great job using an applicable example. Build on what you have by sharing if/how this helped the new hires coming behind you by improving efficiency, foundational knowledge, or ramping up their ability to contribute to the team more quickly.
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