Social Service Manager Mock Interview
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Question 24 of 30
Tell me about your experience with inter-agency collaboration.
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Shelley Story is a coach and higher education administrator with 25 years of experience. She has designed multi-day, on-site interview processes and has conducted thousands of interviews and mock interviews with college students and recent grads.
When grant monies are involved or initiatives span multiple categories of aid, more than one agency may be involved in implementation. Neither agency may have tools to hold the other accountable, so the interviewer wants to know how you will work with your equivalents in other agencies to accomplish a project together.
Shelley Story is a coach and higher education administrator with 25 years of experience. She has designed multi-day, on-site interview processes and has conducted thousands of interviews and mock interviews with college students and recent grads.
Don't say you have no experience in this area. If you haven't worked with other agencies as the representative from your organization, think of a time you collaborated with another department or even a co-worker over whom you had no authority. Explain how you managed to collaborate even though you weren't able to require them to meet your expectations.
Shelley Story is a coach and higher education administrator with 25 years of experience. She has designed multi-day, on-site interview processes and has conducted thousands of interviews and mock interviews with college students and recent grads.
"In my current position, I've worked on an annual resource fair with several other agencies in the region. We work together for about three months before the fair, which is designed to help educate the public and provide direct services related to wellness. Each year, we rotate the responsibility for coordinating the logistics of the fair, and if it's not your turn to coordinate, you agree to meet the coordinating agency's deadlines or communicate well in advance if you cannot."
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