RBC Capital Markets LLC Mock Interview
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Give me an example of a time that you had to solve a problem without having all of the necessary information at hand to do so. 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.
For this question, your interviewer is looking to test your ability to be analytical and resourceful in a specific situation where you had to dig further to solve a problem. Prior to your interview, try to think of a time in the past where you encountered this specific situation and talk through it by laying out the problem and walking through the step-by-step approach you took to solve the problem. Try to be as detailed you can as you explain how you thought the problem out and worked hard to use the resources you could to help solve the problem. Your interviewer will be relying on these fine details to truly see how you will perform on the job with RBC Capital Markets.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"Back when I first joined my current organization, I was taking a role that had been vacant for many months and I had to start with a backlog of work along with the regular daily activities. This customer service role included logging daily visitors and calls and the interim rep only kept brief notes. After taking the time to walk through training and getting running on my own, I realized that the current workload wouldn't allow me to catch up on the backlog of work that had been missed. While I had ideas of how to play catch up on the work, I approached my supervisor with a few ideas and we settled on having me log hours from home on our system as overtime to get caught up. I worked with our IT staff on getting set up on our network from home and was more that willing to help out with some extra hours."
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At the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I built an application to replace a report generated by Microsoft SQL Reporting Services (SSRS). The report I was attempting to replicate is called the Top Movers Report. It is a cross-section of monthly changes in sales and inventory for business units in the United States. It was unclear to me which SQL table the data is coming from since I could not find any documentation, and the naming convention was confused across tables. Initially, I consulted colleagues to see if anyone can help me determine which table I needed to retrieve data from, but no one could tell me. So, I took my best guess based on the type of data the tables contained. During the development process, I verified that my report was consistent with the SSRS one, which it was.
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Nice! This is a great example to cite. It shows that you're open to asking questions when needed yet still confident enough in your abilities to estimate/guess when all the information isn't obtainable. Despite not acquiring the information you'd hoped for from others, you still independently and proactively moved forward and ultimately achieved success. Great job!
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