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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
The example you provide to this question should provide your interviewer with a deeper understanding of your communication skills. How well a representative is able to communicate and articulate complicated matters into simpler terms can often prove essential when interacting with their customers. Therefore, how you answer this question may offer insights into whether they can trust you to represent their company to their customers.

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I had a customer who wanted to return a product, but was having difficulty with how to go about printing a return label from our website. After a few moments, I realized they weren't going to understand terms such as settings and menu. So I described everything pictorially, and walked them through, navigating each screen, holding their hand by offering them specific walkthrough instructions for every step. When it came time to print their label to return their product, I asked them if I could share their screen, took a snapshot of their return label, and emailed it to their local shipping center. Then I told them all they had to do was bring the product to the shipping center, mention that I emailed them the return label, and they should be good to go."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Spend time reviewing their website and you'll find that they place a great deal of emphasis on how you should communicate when acting as a representative of their company. They'll rely on you to "break complex problems up into bite-size pieces and are able to explain them to stakeholders and engineers. Keep it simple. As Zalandos, our individual actions and words collectively shape our culture and our future."

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