these bids. In hindsight I should have taken a simpler approach to the problem and not tried to make it soplex or all inclusive. Ever since, Ive paid more attention to making rmendations in a timely manner.
Q:Give an example of a time when you were asked to aplish a task but werent given enough information. How did you resolve this problem.
A:At my last internship, my supervisor, an account executive, asked me to assemble five hundred press kits for a mailing. I wasn't sure in what order the pages and press releases should go, but my supervisor had already left for a client meeting. Afraid of putting the information together in the wrong order, I managed to track down her cellphone number and called her in her car. She explained the order of the materials over the phone, and in the end I managed to prevent a mistake that would have cost hours of work and a delay in the mailingnot to mention a few headaches.
Q:Describe a time when you failed to resolve a conflict.
A:I wasnt able to keep a good employee once who'd been in our manufacturing facility for ten years. His job description was rewritten to requireputer skills. I offered to send him to night classes, but he refused the help. I had no option but to replace him. In retrospect, if Id encouraged him and other employees to acquire new training periodically, he might not have been overwhelmed by the time his position was reworked. Now Im vigilant about encouraging my group to attend seminars and urses to enhance their job skills and to avoid bing outdated.