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How do you determine priorities when you have multiple projects due?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
When you feel torn between multiple projects or tasks, how do you decide which one needs your attention the most? Assure the interviewer that you can be diligent when it comes to assessing your priorities.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"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 an additional commitment of hours from me. Never have I under delivered on a deadline."
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Prioritizing is a skill that requires practice. There are many approaches you can take. Here are some suggestions:
1) Make a list. By thinking through and writing down each item that needs completion, you can see it on paper.
2) Mark what is urgent or essential. Take into account deadlines and meetings.
3) Order each task based on effort and estimated value. Considering due dates and how long it will take to do each item (also considering how much time you have).
In answering this question, show the interviewer that you have a system in place that helps you to think through what needs to happen, and when. The better you can prioritize, the more productive you will be, making you an asset to their company!
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In order to determine priorities, I would make a spreadsheet in excel or in my agenda book of all the projects I have to do and when the deadlines for each are. Based on the length of each project and deadlines I will be able to determine what would be a priority and what is not.
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Listing and organizing your projects can help visualize your daily priorities and ensure they support the overarching needs and deadlines of each project. You can strengthen this answer further by explaining how you organize your daily priorities by completing the most urgent tasks first, working on items needed by other team members to keep the project moving, or doing those that will take the most time first to ensure they're completed on time.
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