UnitedHealth Group Mock Interview
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Question 32 of 37
Talk about a time where you took an existing process and used your own creativity to make it better. What did you learn in this situation that you can bring to the team?
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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.
Under the UnitedHealth Group umbrella fall two complementary businesses, Optum and UnitedHealthcare. The growth and success of these business units, and UnitedHealth Group as a whole, has come down to the organization's ability to grow, learn, and adapt in a changing world. Your interviewer will be hoping to get the sense that you are always looking for ways to do things better and help live their core value of innovation. Talk to the interviewer about your ability to take an existing process and develop it creatively by talking about a time you did this on the job. Make sure that your example clearly outlines how you identified a problem, thought carefully through solutions, and then the work you did to implement a new process.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As an internal auditor of over 15 years, automation of repetitive tasks has certainly come to more light in recent years with new software. A couple of years ago, I was at a national convention and got to talk with and see presentations from some great companies. Upon returning, I began thinking about how the process of my current team could be improved with new software and brought a proposal to my director. She knew that cost and time savings were of utmost importance, so I was tasked with conducting some studies on current labor hours and costs that could be saved and I was happy to oblige. In the end, we went with a great new software package that drastically increased our productivity in fieldwork and reporting. In coming to the UHG team, the high volume of claims here should always be open to improving the process for efficiency and I have an eye open for this."
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In my last role, our team did customer tracking on an excel spreadsheet. Each week I would have to email the team to ask for updates and each team member would make their updates and email me with the spreadsheet attached, I would then open each email and compile all of the updates into the spreadsheet which was time-consuming and not efficient. I created a shared spreadsheet and created a team on Teams where the document lived and team members could make updates as the days progressed. I created a much more efficient process.
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Excellent! This is a very strong answer because you provided a specific example with lots of details that truly shows how you improved a process. Wonderful response!
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I lead the initiative to implement our employee performance appraisal process. Based on employee feedback, I added quarter check-ins with managers so that employees received more feedback throughout the year. I learned that it is important to consider the impact on operations for new processes and it is critical to involve those outside your department when making changes.
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Awesome! This is a great example of a time when you improved a process. What led you to push for quarterly performance appraisals in the first place? Beyond the lessons you learned, what was the end result? Did the employees appreciate the additional feedback on their performance? Did performance improve as a result of the increased check-ins?
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