At Varian Medical Systems, we do a lot of cross functional team projects. Tell me about a project team you've been on and your role.
If you thought group projects ended in college, you were wrong! Most organizations have their share of project work as well as the day to day work. Walk the interviewer through a successful project where you played a big role and had large ownership.
"At my company, I was selected to represent my department in a larger project team to implement a new CRM system. We met weekly, sometimes twice a week for about 12 months, My role was to make sure our old CRM system data converted into the new one and that it was organized in a useful way. I collaborated with IT as well as the project manager for the new system to make sure the data was useful and organized. When the new system launched, our old and rich data was there and useable so that we could maintain relationships we our customers seamlessly."
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Anonymous Answer
One of the most recent and challenging projects that I worked on was for my Enterprise Distributed System class the last semester. We were a group of 5 members and our project was to build a simulation of the Indeed web application. Although, initially we all had different ideas on how to approach it. We decided to not assign tasks based on priority, sat through a couple of meetings, and got to know each other. This helped us identify each other's strengths. I was more interested in handling the front end of the application. I worked on building the interface of the project. We assigned the tasks based on interests and this helped us work together as a team to put out the application in time that we were all happy and proud of.
Stephanie's Feedback
You do a good job of highlighting exactly how you've leaned into other people's strengths on the team; it sounds like the experience was very collaborative and allowed everyone to contribute their best. In order to make this answer even stronger, I suggest adding a closing sentence that outlines the specific impacts of this application. You mention. being happy with the outcome, but are you able to quantify exactly what that outcome was?
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