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What challenges are you looking for in a position?
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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.
"When I read your job posting I was thrilled to see that you are looking for an expert in Excel as well as someone with training and onboarding experience. I have been seeking a role with further opportunities in leadership and also on the technical side."
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 an experienced manager, I am looking for the greater challenge that comes from leading a larger team. I currently manage 15 people, so my interest was piqued when your job posting mentioned a team of 28."
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 worked as a freelance marketer for many years and seek the challenge that comes from working for a larger agency with enterprise level clients. Your company has been on my radar for quite some time, and I would be thrilled to join your experienced team."
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.
"My previous role offered part-time hours in a non-commissioned environment. Now that I have completed my business degree I would like to join a company full time, in a commission driven environment. The challenge of meeting a sales quota is exciting to me."
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 quotas in my current role are quite conservative, and my client list is warm and primarily full of long-time clients. Now, I seek the challenge of further business development activities, a more aggressive sales quota, and hotter leads."
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 teacher, there are always challenges in the classroom. What I am seeking is further professional development opportunities. When you mentioned in the job posting that professional growth is a significant focus in your school that was very appealing to me."
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.
Assure the interviewer that the challenges you look for in a position are ones that will push you to grow in your career. Interviewers want to see that you are never complacent and that you like to set goals for yourself. Also, if you have read the job posting, you should address the challenges present in this role and how they align with what you are seeking.
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 am looking for a position where I can better exercise what I learned while earning my CPA. My current position has simpler accounting concerns, and so I seek to join an organization, such as yours, where I can be part of more complex accounting projects."
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I am looking for challenges in this position because challenges motivate me, especially when I cannot figure out how something works or fix something that is broken. In the job description, it mentioned the ability to learn new programs. Having learned new programs, like InDesign, I know there are many challenges when not being able to understand how to do something.
Alexandra's Feedback
You do a good job of explaining why you are open to challenges, but it's a little unclear what type of challenges you are hoping for. Do you want to learn new programs, or are there other ways you are hoping to be challenged?
Anonymous Answer
I want to be able to hit high sales quotas. I also look for challenges where I can get outside of my comfort zone and grow my skills. I want to be able to use SQL pro efficiently to analyze data and understand sales enablement further.
Rachelle's Feedback
You are very specific about the challenges that you are looking for, which is fantastic!
Anonymous Answer
I'd like to have an opportunity to apply what I learned while getting my scrum master certificate or the AWS solution architect certificate because my current role gives me a narrow window to achieve that, and I'm looking for more.
Cindy's Feedback
Great! You're demonstrating the skill and motivation to succeed in the role as well as your motivation for leaving your current employer.
Anonymous Answer
I seek in my next position to be presented with all the challenges presented in each of my previous roles: Improving the technical publications process while meeting all deadlines and making my management and customers happy with my performance.
Cindy's Feedback
Good! Are there any new challenges that you can foresee? Are there new technologies that you're eager to learn?
Anonymous Answer
The job description includes helping the branch manager recruit new applicants and assist applicants through the employment process. I am a very helpful person in nature, I would love to help people find jobs. And what I am looking for in a job is personal satisfaction and I believe that these challenges will help me grow as a person.
Chad's Feedback
It is clear from your response that you have prepared for the interview by reviewing the job description, and the challenges associated with the role align with your personal and professional goals. Nice job!
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