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At TAL, we give everyone the opportunity to be a mentor. Have you had the opportunity to teach an important skill to a co-worker?
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Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
Interviewers want to hear that you have experience teaching or mentoring other employees one-on-one. You may have taught a new hire all of your department's standard processes. Perhaps you taught a long-standing employee how to use Excel. You may have mentored an employee who was struggling to hit monthly goals. All of these scenarios are great examples to draw on.
Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
"I have always enjoyed the opportunity to teach or mentor my colleagues. For example, last month our company introduced a new module in our SAP system, and I could see that one of our team members was having some trouble with the new module. I was familiar with it already, so I offered to help him. We spent his lunch hour for the next three days working on it. He eventually perfected his interaction with the module, and he's now teaching others."
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During the lockdown, I was asked to handle the store pick-up sales for the retailer I worked for. The number of customers surged like never before, and we would always have customers waiting in line for hours. I didn't have any experience with their system, so I learned by using it every day. As the number of customers increased, more people were sent to the department. I took the initiative to coach each and every new co-worker about the system and our process of working. I would stay late to make sure that I myself understood the whole thing and then I would teach them. It was very rewarding to see the team running well.
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Talk about learning and working under pressure! This is an engaging story-based example that shows you are a natural leader who can see upcoming needs and create solutions.
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