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Most jobs require organization and planning skills, and HR is no different. The interviewer wants to see if you have a system in place to keep yourself organized and if you have a method to prioritize your work.
Talk about how you keep yourself organized in your current job or how organization is key in your student/personal life. If you use a method such as Stephen Covey's 4 Quadrants or the ABCDE method to prioritize, mention it in your response.
"Organization is crucial, both at work and in my personal life. I am a list maker and utilize lists to keep track of my tasks. I have a list of recurring tasks and their due dates and another list for one-off projects or tasks I am assigned. I rely on my Outlook calendar for reminders of upcoming due dates and recurring tasks, and I start my workday every morning by taking five minutes to review what needs to be worked on that day and in the upcoming week. This helps me determine what is the biggest priority and should be worked on first. I have also used Stephen Covey's 4 Quadrant method to help me keep track of how many tasks are in the "urgent and important" first quadrant versus the "important but not urgent" quadrant. The 4 Quadrants method also helped me identify some tasks that were not important and not urgent, and I was then able to eliminate a few of them to free up additional capacity for more important tasks."

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