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Holly Chavez is a multidisciplinary freelance writer and news columnist. She has a BS in Industrial Engineering Technology. Holly specializes in writing about business, engineering, and sustainability.
Flowcharting is to processes what CAD programs are to plant layout. Knowing how to do it is an excellent skill to have if you are an industrial engineer, and the interviewer knows it.
Tell them, 'I can map the as-is process and identify areas to improve. After that, I can reorganize the flowchart steps for the to-be process you want to implement. Microsoft Visio is an excellent and easy-to-use program for flowcharting, and I have some printouts of ones I've created using it at the university and on the job. I also know that the four most common flowchart types are swim lane flowchart, process flowchart, workflow diagram and data flow diagram.'

Holly Chavez is a multidisciplinary freelance writer and news columnist. She has a BS in Industrial Engineering Technology. Holly specializes in writing about business, engineering, and sustainability.
"I can map the as-is process and identify areas to improve. After that, I can reorganize the flowchart steps for the to-be process you want to implement. Microsoft Visio is an excellent and easy-to-use program for flowcharting, and I have some printouts of ones I've created using it at the university and on the job. I also know that the four most common flowchart types are swim lane flowchart, process flowchart, workflow diagram and data flow diagram."
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