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Question 4 of 27
Think back over your career up to today and tell me about the most difficult day on the job you encountered. What made the day difficult and how did you handle that situation?
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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.
We've all had our share of difficult days on the job and how we handle those days in particular can really make or break where our careers go in that position or with that company. Think of a particular day ahead of your interview that really outlines your ability to handle adversity and proves that you were able to handle it with grace rather than turning your uniform in and heading home for the day. Another important piece of your answer should be discussing what lessons you learned from that particular day moving forward that you still carry with you to this day.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"It's funny that you ask this question because I can honestly say that my worst day on the job happened just a few short weeks ago. Upon arriving to work in the morning, I quickly learned that our entire network was down and we wouldn't be able to work within our CRM or other programs that day. Many of my coworkers were visibly upset and questioning how we would be able to do our jobs that day. Rather than joining the crowd and freaking out about the situation, I huddled our group together to talk about solutions to the workday after we found out that the network likely wouldn't be fully up and running until late afternoon. While some colleagues carelessly went home for the day, I helped brainstorm how we could keep our phone lines open and my boss was very grateful for my efforts that day. Looking back, what made this the most difficult for me was seeing how others responded so negatively over an issue that we had no control over."
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Haha, it's kinda funny that something similar happened approx. 5months ago. So in manual remediation, we move data from the staging location to the original location but one of our team members forgot to replace the dataset ID, so all the data got copied to the wrong location. Luckily we have a policy of taking back-up of original data before any work. So I worked with Platform Data Engineer to correct the data. As we know mistakes can happen, since then we implemented the peer review.
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This is a strong answer because you clearly explain why the day was difficult and how you helped to fix the problem that occurred. You also talk about how long-term changes (peer review) were implemented so this won't happen again in the future, which is great. Perhaps consider giving more details about why this error was such a bad thing so the interviewer fully understands the seriousness of the situation. Nice job!
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