Newspaper Editor Mock Interview
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Question 28 of 31
Would you consider yourself to be more analytical or creative by nature?
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Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
We all have an analytical side and a creative side to some degree. Identify which trait is more valuable in this particular role. If you're expecting your primary responsibility to be revising a writer's work, then show your analytical side. If, on the other hand, you'll be expected to take the newspaper in new directions and to increase readership, creativity may be more important.
Either way, lead with the more important trait and explain why. Then show how the other trait supplements the first.
Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.
"I'm more creative by nature. I tend to think outside the box and I never simply accept the status quo. If the objective is to get better, then I'm not the kind of person who gets stuck with doing things the way they're being done right now. I focus on what will be, not what was. And while creativity comes naturally to me, in my career I've had to learn how to be analytical. As an editor, I've had to learn how to break a piece of writing down and rework the mechanics on a paragraph-by-paragraph level down to the sentence and word level. That analytical side of me is what helps give structure to the creative side of me."
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