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Question 33 of 35
Walk me through your experience in facilitating adult education.
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Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
Learning Directors are tasked to manage other training leaders whose main task is to facilitate learning for adults. Ensure the interviewer that you can evaluate the work your subordinates do, based on your credentials in adult learning. Briefly describe your work history in the subject. A successful response will highlight hands-on experience as a facilitator, your experience in establishing and managing the adult learning process, as well as any educational background or training certifications you may have.
Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
"I have a total of ten years facilitating adult education in the workplace. For the first three years, I was a training and quality specialist at ABC Inc, where I trained new hires. I facilitated training sessions that ran for a total of 40 hours over a week for classes of five to 25 trainees. During my time there, I conducted training more than 100 times to almost a thousand new hires. I then moved to training and quality manager for the next three years, with two specialists reporting to me. Part of that job was to step in whenever a specialist needed back-up or couldn't make it to work. Moreover, I was in charge of onboarding new training and quality specialists and trained them. I also developed new courses and revised old ones.
After that, I was hired by 123 & Co as a Learning and Development Manager. There were seven Learning and Development Trainers who reported to me during that time, and I conducted train-the-trainer sessions for them. I have been with the company for five years and was promoted to Senior Manager two years ago. Even though I haven't facilitated classes for new employees, I have been one of the main facilitators for all of our career development courses. In addition, I've recently received my Master's Degree in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology from Harvard's Graduate School of Education."
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