Excavator Mock Interview
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Question 25 of 35
What control pattern are you used to running?
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Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
The interviewer asks this question to see which controls you commonly use and if you can use both the ISO and SAE. While some machines can switch from one control to the other, other machines only operate with one or the other. The interviewer wants to see if you will have trouble operating their equipment if hired.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
You want to avoid answering that you can only operate a specific control pattern and are unwilling to learn another. The interviewer wants to hire an excavator operator that is flexible and willing to learn new things.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
"I am used to running an ISO control pattern, but am also proficient in running the SAE pattern. I am ambidextrous and find it easy for me to make the switch in my brain without really thinking about it."
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