Have you ever had a time where you were able to express creativity on the job? If so, talk about that time and explain why was it important to you.

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Siemens Healthineers lists one of the qualities of success with the organization as being motivated to show initiative and creativity. For this question, your interviewer will be looking to hear that you have a creative spark in your job and that you are willing to bring that tot his position if you are hired. If you're finding it difficult to think of an example, dig deep because just about everyone has a time where they were able to be creative in their work. Be sure that your interviewer walks away from your interviewer knowing that you can think outside of the box in creating solutions in your work.

"Last year, I approached my VP of Sales to get permission to create some unique sales incentives for my team that would center around boosting the numbers around several new product lines. In looking to really motivate and focus my team on the new lines, I was given a modest budget and with that I created some great programs that helped motivate my staff. The creativity in this situation was important because it allowed my team to crawl outside of their comfort zone to earn some great awards and incentives for a job well done."

"Knowing that our customer call routing was in shambles a few years ago in my current position, I led a team of individuals that redesigned our automated call system to get customers to who they needed to speak to in a quick and efficient fashion. The creativity in this project came into play through putting ourselves in the customers shoes and brainstorming all of the possible scenarios that calls came in for. In the end, our final product was a hit with customers and greatly impacted results in post-call surveys that were automatically generated to each caller."

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"I changed some processes in my previous job. Created Design change tracking database to be able to issue documents to relevant departments automated way. Automated how some reports are produced and formatted (option specification sheets, monthly reports). I always study what we do and how can the method be improved. The success of each project motivates me."