Urban and Regional Planners Mock Interview
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Question 13 of 30
How have you incorporated public transportation into your past designs or planning projects?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
The interviewer is looking to learn more about the complexity of the projects you worked on, and if your project work aligns with their projects and clients. With rising gas prices, environmental issues and climate change, and increasing populations, they want to see that you are addressing the challenges of transportation in your past design and planning projects.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"As far as incorporating public transportation into my designs, I have had the opportunity to work on mass-transit and urban redevelopment projects with a strong emphasis on public transportation solutions, I think the public is very aware of sustainability in public transport, and while any transit option is better for the environment than a private car, individuals will have a hard time giving up their automobiles completely. I think all future urban design and planning projects will need to consider alternate forms of transportation to be sustainable in the future."
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Be sure to bring examples of your work with you. Sometimes it's easier to show than to tell. You can take the interviewer through your work history as well and touch on some of the designs you have done in the past by walking them through your portfolio/slide presentation.
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We did a project in a neighborhood that lacks connectivity. We integrated a new transit stop and increase connectivity and desired paths throughout the shopping parking lots.
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Great response! This project sounds like one with many moving parts, if you have a visual portfolio to support your answer, even better.
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