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How do you determine priorities when you have multiple projects due?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Advertise your adaptability to shifting priorities. It's perfectly natural to want to see a project you are involved in through to its completion. But when a greater need arises, the team is counting on you to be able to let go and address the greater need. Explain how you approach your work and the systems you employ. Exhibit an ability to shift priorities without losing progress, without creating rework, and without losing momentum.
Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"I will determine which project requires my attention by the number of hours we are behind and then the project size. I am comfortable delegating tasks when needed, but I am also aware that these times will require additional hours from me. Never have I underdelivered on a deadline."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"Assuming that the projects have different stakeholders, I interview each to determine the value of increased productivity, morale or revenue, decreased costs, and the overall impact."
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Budget, deadline, customer priority.
Stephanie's Feedback
Again, this is a great start, but you'll want to flesh out this response a bit more. Can you think of a specific time when you juggled competing priorities?
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In my current position, I am processing order closures for corrective work on electric transmission poles, and based on the priority of the tag (A, B, COE, E &F tags) I will complete the highest priority first. I work with a team in my department and communication and at times delegation is also vital for making sure high and low priority projects are done in an appropriate time.
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It's great that you have a personal example that you can share! However, it sounds like right now the prioritization of projects is determined by someone else and you just make sure to act accordingly. This is important, but you'll also want to show the interviewer that you are capable of determining the prioritization of projects by yourself. Consider mentioning that you would prioritize projects based on criteria like deadlines, importance, and business value.
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I determine my priorities by making a list of all the tasks that need to be completed. Then I identify which tasks are urgent, a task that needs my immediate attention, and which task is an important, task that has significant worth or consequence.
I also am flexible and adaptable so I can plan for the unexpected.
Jaymie's Feedback
Perfect! These are good strategies to use, and it's critical to reassure the interviewer that while you can come up with a plan to execute, you also understand the need to be flexible and pivot as necessary.
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