What is your greatest work-related accomplishment to date?

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Christine Pasqueretta · Accepted Answer

"In my current position, I reduced costs by reviewing packing slips, contracts, invoices, and calling out vendor billing errors. Then, I assisted Accounts Receivable by making collection calls, bringing in potentially lost revenue. Lastly, I created a new filing system that helped us research transactions faster. These changes resulted in a 15% revenue increase in just 90 days. I am eager to bring these types of results for your organization."

Christine Pasqueretta · Answer

The interviewer wants to know what kind of work-related successes you value in the workplace. The goal of your response is to give the interviewer a firm idea of the type of accomplishments you value the most. It's best if your values align with those of the hiring company. For instance, if the hiring company values customer service, consider discussing one of your proudest customer-service-related accomplishments.

Rachelle Enns · Answer

Think about a stand-out work accomplishment that you believe will resonate with the hiring company. This approach means choosing an achievement related to the successes you hope to see in this new role. This approach could also mean selecting an accomplishment that aligns with the hiring company's mission, values, and goals. Explain why the accomplishment means so much to you. If you can, finish your response with a qualifying statement regarding how you will continue this pattern of achievement if you are the chosen candidate. Be as detailed as you can. If you are new to your career, you can lean on other experiences such as school, competitive sports, or volunteer work.

Rachelle Enns · Answer

Since the interviewer asks for a work-related example, it's best to avoid discussing a personal accomplishment. Yes, you have accomplished many exciting things in your personal life! Perhaps you have raised incredible children, or you have overcome a personal struggle. However, it's essential to keep your interview answers work-relevant whenever possible.

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"My greatest accomplishment stems from my time in university. I graduated top of my Business Administration class while also holding down a full-time admin job. It was a true success story, and it encouraged me, knowing that wherever I land in my career, I will always be able to handle busy workloads and heavy expectations."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"My proudest moment was setting a company record for fastest hire-to-promotion at Company ABC. I walked into the new opportunity, crushed expectations, and saw the reward of a promotion. The situation turned out exactly how I had hoped, and it gave me the confidence to keep pursuing my biggest career dreams, which is what brings me here today - interviewing with your esteemed organization."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"My proudest professional moment was being the youngest employee in my company to be promoted to the department manager role. I worked hard to meet my sales targets and also spent time mentoring new hires. I learned a lot about management, leadership, and coaching - all skills that I am excited to bring to this new opportunity."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"Two of my proudest career accomplishments occurred this year. I earned a spot in the President's Club and was awarded Top Customer Choice in my division. This recognition meant so much to me because it showed me that my dedication and tenacity truly paid off. I won the President's Club annual trip to Mexico, which was exciting. I plan to continue this pattern of success with your organization."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"My biggest work-related accomplishment came when the school district cut my elementary Spanish program for budgetary reasons. The parents of my students rallied to ensure the district, the board, and the principals all knew that it was not an option to cut the program. I had former students speak about how important Spanish has been for them and how impactful I was as a teacher. I knew then just how big of a difference I had made at that community school. Rest assured, I will bring this same energy and dedication to your school should you choose to hire me."

Rachelle Enns · Answer

"In my last role, I created a social cause program for our organization. The charity initiative focused on giving back to the community, and our employees were happy to be involved in volunteer efforts. I have had many wins in my management career, but giving back to others was truly the most gratifying. I look forward to gaining more experiences like this with your organization as I see that your company also puts a spotlight on giving back."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I was awarded as an outstanding employee on four separate occasions for my services to students, colleagues, and institution. However, my greatest accomplishment was to see my students take my advice, complete the course successfully, and embrace a bright future of doing what they are passionate for and capable of."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Getting a promotion last November as a lead test technician is a great accomplishment to me to this date. I got this because I am being trained to work on all testing stations, starting from the board-level test, module-level test to system-level test."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment has been teaching in childcare, which is very challenging. It has been very rewarding. My boss rewarded me for completing the training and my students are grateful. They compliment me on being a good trainer."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Last year I was the top salesman in my region, and this was a great accomplishment. I was recognized amongst the whole company, in which I was able to sell upwards of $85 million.

The same year, our US sales came out and I was #9 out of 250 salesmen across the whole USA in the industrial division."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I deployed an AI Alert Dispositioning by discarding 40% of the volume as false positive with 99% confidence. The project is to help the Operations team screen through false positive cases and sieve them out so that it doesn't flow to Operations for review. I adopted a mathematical algorithm Levenstein distance to measure how closely the two data points are and set a threshold to denote if they are potential true positive or false positive. I also validated my model by extending sufficient samples to the Operations team to cross-validate before production deployment. It was well received and it managed to save 6 headcounts in total."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I managed the development of the first client managed ITSM integration with our product in our company. This became an example architecture for other similar clients to use and they started to adapt the same approach. By doing that, our revenue and client satisfaction increased. I am eager to bring these types of results for your organization."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest accomplishment was when my project was funded. This became the basis for transitioning from fellow to faculty which is greatest accomplishment."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I took the lead in bringing a major research funding opportunity to my lab using the database system designed and implemented by me. While doing so, I learned a great deal about the process of writing research proposals. I was able to experience how to highlight the challenges, how to highlight the impacts in research community while writing this proposal. This helped the junior students in our lab to receive research funding, which is important during their Ph.D. study. This allowed me to explore my research ideas of developing a new data management system that can perform data enrichment natively within a single system."

Anonymous User · Answer

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Anonymous User · Answer

"During covid, all our team was off and I had to take all responsibility for the project. It was a tight project schedule; I Worked very hard.I was able to split the tasks and do good teamwork with the US team, which was at home.Got a bonus for finishing the project."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Early on being a part of the team that installed the asset under the construction process. Being a part of developing the system, the workflow, key templates early on in my career. It was a great learning experience and the result is that it is still effective and is still being used today."

Anonymous User · Answer

"The greatest work-related accomplishment is when I became a supervisor. I wanted this position so I could help the staff work better as a team."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment was when I was hired at ABK Neurological Associates as a biller. I worked hard to obtain information that would benefit the company financially. Within two years I was promoted to the department manager role. I worked hard to meet and target goals. I learned a lot about management, leadership, and coaching - all skills that I am excited to bring to this new opportunity."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment has been becoming a gatekeeper for our Web platform. I reviewed around 10-20 code reviews every day for months, resulting in significant code quality improvement for our web platform. I made sure everyone follows the best coding practices and architecture. I used every opportunity to educate team members through my code reviews. I was playing to my strength of attention to detail. I did this in addition to my regular workload."

Anonymous User · Answer

"It was in Megisti BCP, where all databases for travel traffic statistics were registered only in books and reports. Nevertheless, very often supervisors had been asking for statistics from the past, where we had to refer to the document files for data collection. This task was extremely time-consuming and the supervisors often complained to me regarding the delay in drafting the requested reports. So, I decided that we should convert our data to electronic format in order to make our life easier. After some consultations with my colleagues, we developed a database (mostly excel files) with all kinds of statistics registered, which enabled automated extraction through various search filters. Also, with the help of my colleagues and when the working conditions allowed it, in one year we managed to record the statistics of the previous 5 years. This gave us a clearer picture of the travel traffic in the port of Megisti and gained the respect of our supervisors as they were extremely happy with this innovation of mine and the common efforts from the colleagues of my BCP."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest accomplishment at work, for me, would be catching potentially fatal medication errors. My current job as a pharmacist is to detect and prevent potential drug interactions, and whenever I write potential adverse effect notes and have onsite doctors agree with my rationale makes me feel validated for and valued."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment is getting my first research assistantship at my university. I had done a project regarding IoT air quality data tracking, which requires a lot of research in environmental analysis and microcontrollers. I did not have much experience before I accepted the opportunity, however, I gained much applicable knowledge that I utilize in my studies."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My biggest achievement was creating an enterprise-level health application from scratch in a team of 5. It was my first job in which millions of people would be using the product I made and a big technological challenge with all the react components and logic to implement. In the end, I saw testimonials of people who used my product and how it improved their lives, so it that was fulfilling both technologically and socially."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I worked in a pediatric unit as a lean practitioner. One of the metrics we were asked to improve was the number of patients discharged before noon because it facilitated throughput for the entire hospital. I worked with the entire team involved in the process for a week-long kaizen event where we created a current state map, found the gaps, and created a future state map. The future state addressed several mini processes within the larger metric. The team and I created processes, checklists, handoff documentation, and everything needed to facilitate the patient being discharged by noon. the goal was 25% and we reached 35%."

Anonymous User · Answer

"As an owner of a start-up was the biggest accomplishment not reducing the cost by firing my staff after we suddenly lost our biggest Client but by reducing my salary and taking the Initiative by cold approaching a high number of recruiters so we could find New projects and survive."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I was the lead investigator on a research study for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination that received approval from the FDA. We enrolled about 400 subjects in this study and we were integral in the vaccination receiving the authorization that helped end the COVID-19 pandemic."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment to date is when I train the employees on different tasks in the store and the employee knows how to run different departments in the store. My greatest accomplishment is when that employee moves up and gets a promotion within the company."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I had a team member on my team that I “inherited” when I was promoted to my first management role. What I found was that he was a dynamo. He outworked everyone. But, he had been in the same position for more than six years and was looked at as unpromotable. He and I took a hard look at where we needed to grow and put together a plan to overcome those obstacles to advancement and “build his brand.” I’m proud to say I promoted him two years later to another team on the wholesale side of the business. A few years later I was promoted to lead that team, so happily I “got him back.”"

Anonymous User · Answer

"A regular customer was very displeased with her experience throughout the store. She had multiple complaints. Word got back to my team leader. When she came to me to check out I listened to her complaints, validated them, and offered tips and advice on other products. I wanted her to leave the store a happy and satisfied customer. When she left I did what I had set out to do. My boss asked about the interaction. She was so pleased with the happy ending as was my store supervisor."

Anonymous User · Answer

"When I worked as an undergraduate research assistant, I was the only student working on the team on statistical analysis and classifying multidimensional data using machine learning algorithms such as convolutional neural networks. I worked on this project for a year. This was a fairly independent task, and I performed a lot of research, trial, and error, and asked professors for assistance since I was new to the machine learning field. By the end of the year, I successfully wrote a script that outputted correct results on test data. I wrote a how-to guide for my professor and Ph.D. student to follow, so they can easily conduct data analysis in the future and make significant progress. Recently, a year after finishing the project, my professor contacted me to ask if I would be interested in publishing a paper on the work, and I was very gratified that he recognized my work and that it was really useful in the lab."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment is a 2-year strategy project I worked on to develop a reputation acceleration plan for one of my clients and then activate against the plan with a comprehensive analysis of my client's industry partners. This project involved strategic planning, data analysis, audience research and segmentation, identifying KPIs and measurement tactics and so much more. I was honored to play a pivotal role in project management and execution from beginning to end. The framework we ultimately developed is something colleagues now use across our agency to do this type of work for all types of clients."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I would say that my greatest work-related accomplishment up to date is that I have been a part of a new organizational structure in my current project. In my project, we have formulated a development and operations structure, where I have act as a test coordinator for the development part of it. These have learned me how the production processes are related to the development part. This has also taught me agile ways of working with everything related to it, such as work roles, core values, and principles, new terminologies. The result has been that I have gained personal development and the project itself has delivered greater results."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I took the lead in getting my product on Preferred Formulary status at a major hospital. While doing so, I learned a great deal about the process and was able to take that experience to a second major center shortly after that. This helped a lot of patients, was a major contribution to my organization while also creating a constant revenue stream for my business."

Anonymous User · Answer

"As a retail pharmacist, learning how to deal with difficult customers has become one of my greatest attributes. I once had a patient who was outraged because we didn't have their pain medication in stock. She was yelling and cursing while I was trying to explain the reason why it hadn't come in. I decided to take a step back and understand this patient was in pain and may be experiencing withdrawal. This helped me to calmly think of a way to best resolve this issue. I called multiple pharmacies in the area and explained the situation. I contacted the doctor to have the prescription sent to a different pharmacy. The patient calmed down once she saw my willingness to help. That really taught me the power of patience and empathy which I now use going forward with any difficult patient."

Anonymous User · Answer

"In my current research position, our findings and hard work culminated in award-winning research granted by the university and the college dean and city have recognized it."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I have supported the business in its expansion plan to what is now the largest retail company in the country. Here are the top three: 1. Reviewing, negotiating, and the acquisition of real property interest worth over $7 billion. 2. Minimizing litigation exposure by 70%. 3. Being part of a committee that drafted the retail industry regulations among others. I have many great wins in my career in the retail industry, and I look forward to gaining more with your organization."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Retiring from the department of corrections."

Anonymous User · Answer

"The greatest moment was I solved the problem of the process of the new production line. There was an issue to merge new product process into the old process. I joined the team as a process engineer, and I devoted 4 months to the problem without even one day off. Our team finally figured out and won the annual awards at the end of the year."

Anonymous User · Answer

"After six months of inception in my career as a case manager, the company grows considerably, and I was able to coach new nurses and expand the department."

Anonymous User · Answer

"When I first started at the Bunnings store, there were many miss tints and sales were a little down in the paint accessories so I put the miss tints down by a few dollars and advertised the paint accessories in a way where customers would see if they are purchasing paint. In the result of these changes all the miss tints sold and the sales in paint accessories went up."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I developed an own-brand product, and with every item sold, I had a tree planted in the developing world as part of an afforestation project. To date, I have been responsible for planting 400 acres of forest in South America!"

Anonymous User · Answer

"After researching co-teach best practices, I was given the opportunity to coach teachers in preparation for training videos. After developing an interactive module (with embedded videos), the entire module was published for district use."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My team's manager set realistic working goals so that everybody could participate and still meet the proposed deadline times within acceptable parameters. My team worked so well that we rarely failed to meet our goals."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest accomplishment is when I worked on a project where the scope of work was to upgrade 2 VFDs and control them from a control room several miles away. The VFDs were used to start and stop large Water Pumps."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest accomplishment in school was completing a P4 grand rounds presentation. This was a 40-minute presentation I presented to faculty members and my fellow students. I am proud of this presentation because I spent an enormous amount of time preparing for it. It allowed me to use my skills to lead a presentation about a topic I was interested in."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Just recently, I was named the employee of the quarter, and what makes that such a great accomplishment is that it really was a recognition for my entire team and the hard work and dedication that they gave during some of the most challenging conditions we have seen in many years. I was fortunate enough to be the Lead on the project and the name on the award, but it was indeed a great team effort that I am very proud to have been a part of."

Anonymous User · Answer

"As our company was growing, I saw the need for us to all be on the same page in how we operated systems and protocols within the center; then voicing that need to the Doctor who agreed about my concerns, and together we created this Operations role. It was very hard in the beginning because ultimately this was a self-driven, self-initiated role with not a lot of direction, so it felt lonely at times but after gaining the trust and respect from the employees and seeing the difference my presence and protocols were making plus receiving emails from the staff at the other centers about how they appreciated me I felt validated and successful in the role I helped create."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment to date was when I worked as a sales agent in an insurance company. I had not worked in sales for a while and was transitioning into the position. I had a goal from the company of $10,000 in premium for the month. In my second month in the position, I not only met that goal but exceeded it by $5,000, ending the month with $15,000 in premium."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work accomplishment is being able to help to increase the pharmacy adherence goal from 80 to 83 where the company has to be. By changing prescriptions to 90/days and putting prescriptions on auto fill."

Anonymous User · Answer

"As a child protective worker, I had to detain and remove many children from their homes and parents. The parents have to go through a court process, parenting, and other classes, which can take months to complete.I have always encouraged parents to meet the conditions set by the court and be compliant with the services ordered. It has always made me feel great when I see the parent complete their court-ordered conditions/services and have their children returned home."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work accomplishment is the reputation I built over the years. My patient's family still contacts me on special occasions to remind me how grateful they are that I was the one taking care of their loved ones. It means so much to me to know I made an impact."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I would say my greatest work-related accomplishment to date would be when I got promoted to my territory. I become a top rep within six months by working incredibly hard and keep pushing forward. That year I finished at the highest percent to quote within the company at 171%. I am very proud to say."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest professional achievement was completing my Bachelor's degree in Economics from Penn State University. Being a first-generation American, I started my education in Arabic, so I had to overcome the language barrier in High School. Also, as a refugee who fled the war in South Sudan, I was uncertain about my future when I left home. But I knew I was now in the land of opportunities where you could become anything you want if you put in the work. So, like a lot of other Americans, I worked odd jobs while pursuing my education. This taught me to prioritize my time, build great habits, and stay focused on my goals."

Anonymous User · Answer

"My greatest work-related accomplishment to date is that I have been part of a new migration team. In my project, I was assigned to act as a test coordinator for the new development. I was able to spearhead the old system to new software. As a result, I felt appreciative and successful in this collaboration."

Anonymous User · Answer

"Building my own business is my greatest accomplishment. After working months making little profit and studying SEO techniques, I was able to grow my business to over $20,000 per month, allowing me to hire several employees. It taught me that perseverance can pay off."

Anonymous User · Answer

"I was responsible for rolling out a new fibre-optic service to our business and residential customers in my current position. I worked with another colleague to bring a new service to our customers that hadn't been done in our area before. Our customers can now experience some of the fastest internet speeds this area has ever seen."

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