From the course: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions

Candidate answer and feedback

From the course: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions

Candidate answer and feedback

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(upbeat music) - Let's see how a candidate might answer this question, I'll be back momentarily with some detailed feedback. - As a young professional, I was given a small event to manage for my company's senior executives. We originally expected about 50 attendees but then the CEO decided to participate, too. Suddenly the event became much bigger with 400 people attending. buses, food, carefully scripted content, speeches and the program itself. I stepped up and designed carefully crafted messaging documents for each stakeholder. We had weekly check-ins with each group. I ran volunteer trainings to be sure that all the logistics run smoothly. I learned the importance of careful planning and constant practice. Two habits that paid off on many projects since then. The event is now considered the most successful of our division. My boss praised my work as going far beyond what she expected when the project was first assigned. - Great job. I really like that response for a number of reasons. First, your body language and all the tools that you used to convey and tell the story were spot on. You had inflections in your voice and you used other methods to help people be attached to the story that you were telling. Remember that your interviewer is sizing you up, for lack of a better term. So you want all your verbal and non-verbal cues to project confidence and poise. Second, I really love the way you told the story and painted a picture for me to help me understand all the different aspects of the project, where you were able to make adjustments, when things didn't go according to plan and bring me along for the journey in an authentic way. It's really important to project sincerity and real life examples of why you're a fit for this job and you did that in telling the story. Lastly, because you told a complete story from beginning to end, you were able to help me understand the outcome and the implications of a job. Which is really important as you think about someone that I would want to make an investment in to bring onto my team. So well done. So well done.

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