Analyzer Technician Mock Interview
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Question 16 of 27
Have you ever had to make a decision when no policy existed to cover it? What was the situation?
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Policies and procedures have been put in place to help make a job safer and/or easier. Sometimes, however, a situation arises that does not follow the textbook policies, and decisions have to be made. It is entirely possible that this has never happened to you before, so just be honest with your answer. However, if it has happened to you, be sure to fully explain the situation, why there was no policy in place, and how you went about solving it.
"One time we were asked to do a job at a new site that we had never been to before. We had our safety debriefing that morning and everything seemed fine. However, when we got there, the setup was nothing like we had planned. Even the schematics we had been given were wrong for what we were looking at. We stopped to discuss as a team how to proceed, and we all decided we needed to stop the job and go back to our supervisor with the information. All of the procedures we had been given to follow at the job site didn't apply, so we stopped the job and reconvened with the new information. This wasn't something that I decided all by myself, but our entire team made the decision together."
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