If you were hired today, what would you accomplish first?

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Ryan Brown · Accepted Answer

"I know you mentioned that the average tenure in this position, before promotion, is anywhere from 6 months to a year or more. I intend to prove over the first three months that I am a rockstar in the organization and would be of greater benefit to you in an account executive role than I am in a sales development role."

Ryan Brown · Answer

The interviewer would like to know that you would be ready to make an impact on their organization, immediately after being hired. It's important to come to an interview with a 30-90 day strategic plan on how you would impact the business, should you be the successful candidate. Tell the interviewer what your impact goal is, should you be the successful candidate.

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"If hired today, I would start with analyzing all quantifiable data from the last month, quarter, and year to identify any bottlenecks or shortfalls in productivity. I would make corrections from there. Perhaps this will be in the form of creating better processes, implementing new applications for productivity, or simplifying the vendor process. This work will, of course, coincide with your biggest pain-points at the moment."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"You mentioned earlier that staff training and retention had become a pressure point for your organization. I considered that and created a 90-day plan to increase retention while streamlining the training process via an online training manual with self-guided lessons. Would you like to take a deeper look?"

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"I created a strategic plan for you to take a look at, using one of your biggest clients as an example. This outline shows how I can make an impact as your Head of Marketing in the next 30, 60, and 90 days. First and foremost, my focus would be on getting to know your highest-spending clients by booking face to face meetings with them. It would be a discovery meeting where I would set out to see where we could serve them better, and increase their marketing spend in areas they were lacking."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"If you hired me today, I would dive right into the training manual, learning all of your products and pricing. I would study your best selling products and work on my sales scripts."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"When we were speaking earlier, about sales targets in this position, you mentioned that most new sales professionals begin to hit their KPI's after 120 days. If hired today, my goal would be to exceed my KPI's after the first 90 days. I plan to make a positive impact very quickly by getting on the phone, getting to know my clients, and discovering their needs immediately. I will upsell from there."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"The first thing I would do is acquaint myself with my students, and their parents. The better understanding I have of my class and the dynamics, the more effective of an educator I can be."

Anonymous User · Answer

"At this point, I think the company could assign me to write a product manual the first day on the job, and I would first create an outline, a publications plan, and a production schedule with milestones and dates, and then I would call a meeting with all the stakeholders of the project to agree on the scope of the manual and to discuss any special handling for the product."

Anonymous User · Answer

"While preparing for this interview, I observed that some of the policies posted on the company's website had been overdue for revision, some as far back as December 2018. I would discuss with my Audit Manager on the need to reach out to the leadership of the Departments involved informing them of our observation and the need to review and approve the policies, to incorporate any changes that might have occurred after the last review date."

Anonymous User · Answer

"You said that this position will staff a brand new unit, and the selectee is to facilitate the development of unit preceptors including effective delegation and interpersonal skills. When hired, I will create a 60 days training process by way of online self-guided training for all staff."

Anonymous User · Answer

"If I was hired today, I would establish a relationship with my clients in order to better understand their needs and start working on the projects that are placed on standby, as Corey mentioned due to COVID."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Having a good knowledge of the Oracle system already and my experience with the NRPF Team, I expect to be able to impact the various budget holders with a sound understanding of budgeting and the impact on the organization. This I will do by building trust, confidence, and good rapport and critically analyzing data to ascertain any way we can generate extra value for money as well as cost savings and efficient use of resources."

Anonymous User · Answer

"If I were hired today, I would ask the hiring manager to be my mentor to help me with a solid career path once I complete my training."

Anonymous User · Answer

"If I am hired today, I would have a meeting with my boss to learn the work priorities of my position. I would set goals and action plans for the next 90 days and communicate this to my boss to be aligned on the action plan. I will communicate to my boss what is going well, what is not going well, and what support is needed to get the work done. and I will also ask for feedback to improve my work."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I would prefer to observe the organization, teams, challenges, customers, stakeholders, culture before making any significant changes. First of all, I would like to accomplish my own 30/60/90 days plan and preferably be part of important projects.

1. Absorbing and understanding

2. Implementation

3. Delivering"

Anonymous User · Answer

"I would start by reacquainting myself with people in the sports industry."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I would make sure I had all of my paper work and to do list done. I would have a plan for how I was going to start off on the right foot and all of my paper work was done before my start date. I would also make sure to thank my current company and let them know I found a career I am very passionate about and will be moving on."

Anonymous User · Answer

"If hired today, I would be excited to plan my transition into working here. I would learn more about the company, its work culture, my teammates, and the technologies that I will be working on. I will start making efforts to share my expertise where possible and at the same time learn the skills that I may be lagging in. I will come with a positive attitude and strive to make an impact in a short duration."

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