Building Inspector Mock Interview
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Question 24 of 30
When have you taken an existing inspection process and used your own creativity to make it better?
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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.
The interviewer wants to hear if you have been given the creative freedom to improve existing processes in the past. If you have had this creative freedom, explain what you did and how it turned out. If you have not taken an existing process and improved it, present the ideas you have to improve a current inspection process.
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.
"Last month, my supervisor asked me to take our existing inspections training package and improve it. My goal was to make the system more engaging for new recruits. Once we implemented my ideas, we increased our new trainee retention rate by 16%. I was quite proud of what my creativity could do!"
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 I am newer to my career as a building inspector, I have not had the opportunity to make changes in the process. However, I do have some great ideas, and I look forward to presenting them as my experience grows."
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 current position offers me a great deal of autonomy to utilize some creative ideas with a great level of freedom. My most recent implementation was incorporating a team-based application called Trello. It has greatly helped with improving communication."
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
Focus on describing a situation where you took an existing inspection process and improved it. You might have streamlined a process using software or eliminated specific inspection procedures to remove redundancies. The interviewer wants to hear your creative ideas to determine if you will be an asset to the team if hired.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
While it is great to be creative and have ideas to improve a process, you want to avoid coming across as a building inspector who wants to change every process a company has in place. It is beneficial to have creativity among the staff, but not to the point it disrupts current policies and procedures.
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In my current position, I have to inspect my plant every day. I run a very large plant, and it is difficult sometimes to remember the 100's of things I need to look at every day. I made my self a daily spreadsheet of all the things that I need to inspect for that day. I have broken it down to sections and times, so that throughout the day, I get all of my inspections done and I can check them off as I go so that I know they have been done.
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You sound highly organized and aware of the depth of responsibility in your role. Well done!
Anonymous Answer
Since I am new to Inspecting, I have not had the chance to bring my own ideas to the table. I look forward to the opportunity, though. With all that, there is something to be said for the tried and true way.
Rachelle's Feedback
This is a nice start, and you sound very eager! If you are new to your building inspection career but you have a lot of construction-related experience, I recommend that you consider answering from your previous experiences. You could tell a brief story using the STAR framework to build your response (Situation, Task, Action, Result). We have a guide here if you'd like to learn more about organizing responses using the STAR method: https://www.mockquestions.com/articles/Master Behavioral-Based Interviews Using The Star Method/
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