Accomplishment Interview Questions
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When have you significantly contributed to obtain a corporate goal?
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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.
"In my current role, all of our client projects are handled collaboratively, through cross-functioning teams. We all contribute in our way to the final project. My biggest contribution has been in guiding and mentoring the apprentices who come to our department. I encourage them to participate in brainstorm meetings, and to whiteboard with us. By actively participating in open workplace culture, we have seen great ideas come from even the most junior marketers."
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.
"As a senior sales team member, I am held very accountable for company-wide goals. When we were having a slow month, I took it upon myself to come in early and stay late to get my numbers, and therefore my team's numbers, up. This extra effort motivated the vast majority of the sales staff to take the same approach, without direction from leadership. Because of everyone banding together on our terms, we were able to exceed our monthly quota by 124%."
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.
"Every quarter, I commit to working overtime to complete our quarterly inventory counts. Our goal is to be the store with the most accurate inventory count, and we have been able to achieve that for the past two years."
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 once challenged and pushed my team to a 15% increase in productivity on the last day of the month, to meet our production goal. It was a tough challenge, but we all felt great about the accomplishment in the end."
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 have our school district's goals in mind every day; however, even more so when I am building or tweaking the curriculum. Recently we went through some staff changes, and I inherited a couple of additional classes. I kept the district's goals in mind while also considering the students' needs."
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.
"Every holiday season our company sets a goal to raise 50K for the children's hospital. I contributed by committing to ask every customer at the till if they could donate 1, 3, or 5 for the efforts. We surpassed our goal this year, and I am proud of my contribution towards that target."
Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
The interviewer would like to know that you take an interest in the overall goals of the company. Engaged employees are always the most productive. Assure the interviewer that you are capable of being an involved team member by assisting, in some way, to the end goal of the corporation.
Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
"My most recent employer had a solid interest in giving back to the community. So much so that we, as a group, logged our volunteer hours which were treated as another KPI. We would review our community contributions on a quarterly basis. Our goal was always to hit a minimum of 500 volunteer hours per quarter which meant that everyone would volunteer one day per month. It was a great initiative and one that I happily participated in."
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I previously have undertaken a technology internship at _______ which provides digital products for event management. Ensuring there were no bugs in the software was paramount and also time-consuming. After frequently testing the software, I found that there was no organized method of tracking it. I coordinated with management to develop and implement a new, more efficient software testing template. This was imported into the in-house system and each element of the testing process was given a red, amber, or green mark. This resulted in easier testing that could be tracked which saved time for analyzing the results.
Cindy's Feedback
Amazing! This is a great example and an extremely effective way to show how you'd take similar initiative in the job. Nice work!
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I previously have undertaken a technology internship at _______ which provides digital products for event management. Ensuring there were no bugs in the software was paramount and also time-consuming. After frequently testing the software, I found that there was no organized method of tracking it. I coordinated with management to develop and implement a new, more efficient software testing template. This was imported into the in-house system and each element of the testing process was given a red, amber, or green mark. This resulted in easier testing that could be tracked which saved time for analyzing the results.
Cindy's Feedback
Amazing! This is a great example and an extremely effective way to show how you'd take similar initiative in the job. Nice work!
Anonymous Answer
A persistent challenge we had on my previous job was a hospital-wide staffing shortage. The hospital implemented a program where RNs & CNAs could sign up for an extra shift for 6 or 12 weeks and get pay extra, plus bonus pay at the end of the term. I didn't sign up for this but I picked 2 shifts every week to help with the shortage, and our unit was over staff almost every week, so we were able to help other units. I am always willing to help fill gaps and support my team whenever the need arises.
Stephanie's Feedback
Staffing shortages are always tough, and you do a good job of showing you were able to help respond to this urgent need.
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