Describe a time you went above and beyond your work?
This question serves to reveal how you gauge the levels of your performance. Are you most happy when meeting expectations at your work? Or do you grow restless when you're not striving for career growth? Do you keep your ambitions in the crosshairs? By disclosing your innovations towards accomplishing your career goals, they'll have a clearer understanding of the kind of performance to expect from you.
Whether you decided to put in overtime, worked three shifts back to back to support your team in achieving their goals, or boldly faced whatever odds, you'll want to exude a consistent willingness and flexibility to go above and beyond. A willingness to do whatever it takes, without hesitation. The definition of teamwork. The decision you made could be great or small in its greatness. Above and Beyond are the keywords in this question.
"There was a time when a coworker needed an extra set of eyes to proof their work to try to find the source of a problem with their data. I combed over their project, looking for an error in their findings, and I immediately noticed a discrepancy, but like them, I had difficulty tracing it back to their source. They said they went over their calculations and couldn't figure it out. So I went in assuming I would quickly identify their mistake, but with no luck. So I took a break, went back to the work I had to complete, and wrapped up my work at the end of my shift. Then I took a little extra approved overtime to dive back into solving this riddle. It was then I realized, in my arrogance, that I was simply assuming I would be able to identify quickly what they missed in their calculations. Knowing I have keen attention to detail, I realized I was missing something. I was looking in the wrong place. I combed over the information they compiled. We examined it together, and we were able to determine that the error existed before they extrapolated the data from its source. Amid the research on which they based their project, two numbers had been transposed. Digging deeper, we discovered this discrepancy was the source of another problem our management had been working on. Tying our issue to theirs, we corrected the course of two projects, rather than just one. All I did was dig deeper, track it to its source, tracing it back along with the directions it branched out to."
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