Distance Learning Specialist Mock Interview
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Question 33 of 35
If hired as our Distance Learning Specialist, how would you adapt when asked to make last-minute changes to a program?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
In this role, there will be times when you will need to make quick changes to virtual instructional materials, and you need to be able to handle these changes with professionalism. Your interviewer is trying to gauge your adaptability under pressure and flexibility in the workplace as their next Distance Learning Specialist. Show the interviewer that you can embrace change. If possible, provide an example of a time when you had to make last-minute changes to the curriculum.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I can take the pressure of last-minute changes, and I've proven this throughout my career. Last year, I was working with a district's middle and high school sciences department to create online virtual labs for distance learners. After taking their ideas and creating a robust curriculum for all grade levels which included life sciences, chemistry and physics, I was asked to make some last minute changes to the chemistry curriculum. It was Early August, less than a month to the new school year. So I jumped right into the recommended changes that came from the district. I didn't take the changes personally, because I always work closely with the educators and let them have the final say over the curriculum. In order to be finished on time, I stayed in constant email communication with them, and the amended curriculum was finished in time for the new school year."
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