Walk me through how do you organize, plan, and prioritize your work as a technical writer?
Interviewers prefer to know as much about how you go about doing this job as possible before making a hiring decision. They want to ensure that you have proven methodologies to accomplish your daily tasks and that these align with the way their current staff organizes their work. Since you probably already do this, the key to responding to this question appropriately is to keep your answer simple and to the point, using easy-to-understand language. You should also be prepared for follow-up questions the interviewer will use to explore this topic in more detail.
"While I have tried several different online scheduling and organization tools, the one I prefer best is a sample checklist of short-term and long-term goals and the individual tasks related to these. I review this list at the beginning of each day and determine what I can do to advance toward achieving these goals in the most efficient manner. The two criteria I use include the importance and urgency of each task. I concentrate on the most important and most urgent tasks, followed by important but not urgent and then urgent but not important tasks. The last set of tasks which are not urgent or important usually get dropped off the list."
