How do you ensure quality in your work when juggling multiple projects with tight deadlines?
Interviewers typically ask this question to gauge your attention to detail and your ability to handle multiple projects at a time with success. During your time with them, your interviewer will want to learn that you can produce quality work despite time constraints if they were to hire you as their next Academic Support Coordinator. Talk about the different ways you check for mistakes in your career and focus on providing quantifiable examples to prove your ability to handle multiple things at one time in this role.
"I would say that I'm highly adept at detecting errors in my work to ensure that my final product is the highest quality in content. I can attribute this to my years as a speech-to-text transcriber during and immediately after college. Our typing accuracy target was 98%, and transcription work had a standard turnaround time of 24 business hours. I've adopted this skill into my curriculum development work, in which I always read content aloud as much as possible. In addition, whenever I get a chance to wrap up work on one training material, I try to work on something else that's not related to the content. Either that or I take a quick break and take my mind off the subject. Then, I go back into the material I'm working on to look at it with fresh eyes. I make sure I don't submit anything without thoroughly checking. I also have spell-check and grammar check always active on my devices."
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Anonymous Answer
I have become better at catching my mistakes when I look over my work. As a teacher, I always had to make sure that I looked over the material to ensure that it was accurate before sharing it with students. When I was dealing with different sets of information I made sure to take breaks so that I could look at the information with fresh eyes.
Jaymie's Feedback
Great job!
