Give me an example of a time you had to be extra diligent in order to meet a deadline.

Focus on providing a work-related example of a time you had to be extra diligent to meet a deadline. The interviewer wants to hear that you are organized and manage your time well to complete your tasks. Being a diligent employee shows you are a responsible team player who puts the company's needs first.

"I am always diligent when it comes to deadlines. I am organized and prioritize tasks to meet every deadline with ease. My supervisor recently asked me to prepare a company policies and procedures manual for new hires. She originally gave me three weeks to prepare the manual but moved the deadline to one week for an unspecified reason. I stayed up until two in the morning working on the manual to meet the deadline."

"In the last two hospitals where I worked as a travel nurse, I was sometimes floated after the first four hours of my shift. At 2300, I would be expected to be completely finished with all of my tasks and charting from my first unit, and then I was to take on a new patient assignment on a different unit. Although this was challenging at first, being floated four hours into my shift really helped me improve my efficiency in my nursing tasks and charting those tasks."