Accomplishment Interview Questions

Master 15 Accomplishment interview questions covering achievements, impact metrics, and career highlights.

Question 5 of 15

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

Marketing
Sales
Admin
Manager
Teacher
Retail
How to Answer
Example Answer
Community Answers

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"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

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"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

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"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

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"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

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"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."

Rachelle Enns

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.

"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."

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

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.

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

"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."

Interview Coach

Jaymie

A real coach, not AI. I read every answer myself and write back with personalized feedback.

Typically responds within 24 hours.

0 - Character Count

Anonymous 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.

Kevin's Feedback

Sounds like you have a strong attention to detail, one that is worth advertising. However, you should familiarize yourself with 30-60-90 rule. As it stands, whenever you start in a new position with a new company, you haven’t yet learned the whys of why they do things, nor the priorities your leaders are aware of that you are not yet familiar with. So it is more important to be observant and ask questions. Being presumptive, that just because you observed their website was dated or flawed doesn’t necessarily mean they will prioritize this, nor that they will delegate the responsibility to you just because you noticed it. It very well may be that they are already aware of this, and delegated the task to someone else. However, by adjusting your communication, you can still drive a similar message home.

I’d work on learning the ropes, gaining as much of a big-picture-scope as I can, while building relationships. It’s my philosophy that it’s basically my job to make my bosses’ jobs easier. I have a keen eye for the details, and would point out my observations while asking questions. For example, while preparing for this interview, I observed that some policies posted on the company’s website were outdated and required revision. So, I’d ask my Audit Manager if they were aware of this and see what they had to say. I would gauge if this was a priority, or if there was a reason they sidelined this task. I’d put my all to earn my keep and build the trust of my coworkers to ensure I complimented my new team.

Anonymous 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.

Stephanie's Feedback

Great start, although I suggest developing this response a bit more. Providing a few more details and specifics about what this 6o-day training program would look like would be impactful.

Anonymous 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.

Marcie's Feedback

Nice! Getting to know your clients and their needs sounds like a great first priority if you are hired, in addition to working on projects that have been sidelined due to Covid. Great answer. Consider explaining more why these would be the first things you would focus on (i.e., why do you feel it is important to introduce yourself and uncover the needs of the clients?)

Anonymous 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.

Cindy's Feedback

Good! You're demonstrating how your skills can be put to good use.

Anonymous 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.

Stephanie's Feedback

This response is very action-focused and illustrates your urgency and desire to make an impact. My only suggestion for improvement is quantifying your future accomplishments, if possible. (For example: "In my first 90 days, I'd increase decrease costs by 10 percent.")

Anonymous 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.

Stephanie's Feedback

While having the support of a hiring manager is important, I suggest creating a more action-focused response. Can you quantify exactly what you'll accomplish? (Example: "Increase sales by 10 percent.")

Anonymous 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.

Chad's Feedback

This is a good answer! You have included numerous steps you would take to ensure you are meeting the requirements of the position, including setting goals and seeking feedback on your performance. To improve your response, provide more detail on some of the specific goals you would set in the first 90 days, based on your pre-interview research of the organization. Sharing your strategic plan to make an immediate impact on the business will set you apart from the other candidates.

Anonymous 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

Marcie's Feedback

Excellent. Make sure to focus your answer on the fact that you will start by absorbing information, understanding/learning, and getting to know your colleagues and manager. You might also mention how important it is that you determine what your manager's expectations are for you and what success looks like them.

Previous Question Next Question

Accomplishment Interview Questions

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

15Accomplishment Interview Questions & Answers

1.Tell me about your greatest work related accomplishment.

2.Tell me about a contribution you made to the last team you worked on.

3.Give me an example of a time when you went above and beyond.

4.Tell me about an organization or group outside of work that you contributed to.

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

6.What accomplishment do you believe was the most difficult for you to achieve?

7.How do you like to be recognized for your accomplishments?

8.Tell me about a time that you have helped a co-worker accomplish an important goal.

9.Tell me about a project you completed recently that was ahead of schedule.

10.Describe an ongoing problem at your current or former employer, that you were able to overcome.

11.When have you significantly contributed to obtain a corporate goal?

12.When were you able to resolve a problem within work?

13.What was the greatest cost-cutting measurement you accomplished at your previous employer?

14.What will you accomplish in the first 90 days of working here?

15.What is the most significant achievement you have on the horizon?