Step 1: Select a Job Posting
Search the Internet to locate a job posting of interest to you. You are welcome to search
PhoenixLink or LinkedIn for job postings. The job posting you select will guide your responses
to the mock interview questions in this assignment.
Step 2: Prepare Your Speech by responding to the following mock interview questions.
Tell us about yourself.
How did you hear about <Company Name>?
Why are you seeking a position at <Company Name>?
What is your greatest workplace achievement?
Tell us about a time where you had to handle a workplace challenge?
How did you overcome this challenge?
If you are hired, what skills will you bring to <Company Name>?
Step 3: Record Your Interview Create and submit a 5- to 7-minute video of yourself in Bongo™
providing your responses to the above questions. Be mindful of both your verbal and nonverbal
cues throughout your presentation.
I do love your company in general and I have been looking actively to your website
and your careers page in particular, where I found this Data Analyst job vacancy in your
company. Your Pacesetter Marketing Company is very familiar to me since in my previous
work, your company happened to be our major competitor in this field of marketing. After
learning of this job opportunity in your company, I contacted your company HR department,
and I was invited for the interview today.
I have been refining my Data Analyst skills with side projects and volunteer
opportunities. This job position will give me an opportunity to put my abilities to work for a
mission I am passionate about. I am so happy to learn that in the job description there is that
role that will require frequent presentations to key stakeholders, connecting with my
colleagues and communicating my teams work happen to be my key motivators, actually this
is the most amazing part of this job opportunity. I have learned a lot while working in this
position, in previous employment, but I am now looking for the next step, where I will
continue growing and using my skills I have at a company I love and the opportunity to work
here seems to be a great fit. The position of the Data Analyst will enable me to provide
strategic insights for high growth accounts. I will use my data analysis skills to create a more
sales oriented environment. I am going to use my position to build my successes while
promoting and representing the company’s brand. I do love your company’s mission that
purposes to revolutionize the client goods space and with this position I will bring value to
your company.
My greatest professional achievement was finishing my bachelor’s degree in 4 years
with a good grade. I self-sponsored my university education, I had a full time job while
pursuing bachelor’s degree. Studying while working taught me to manage my time well, stay
focused on my goals and built great habits. This achievement makes me feel proud of myself
and I do believe it will give me a great advantage in my data analyst position in your well
established company. My other professional achievement was turning around the achievement
of my previous employer in the department of data handling. Before joining my previous
employer company, the company was struggling to achieve its quarterly goals, but after
joining, with my data collection and analysis skills, I was in a position to create a new
marketing plan, that after being implemented within 6 months, the company achieved 25
percent above the set goals. My new plan brought in an additional 4 million dollars in revenue
to the company within the second half of the previous year. The additional revenue brought
the company to profitability and it stopped from operating in losses.
My previous employer had big data that sometime could overwhelmed employees and
the risk managers. That data resulted from the information on interaction and incident that
took place on a daily basis. I developed an automated data handling system that allowed the
employees to spent time on it rather than spending time processing it. There was another issue
that resulted from trying to analyze data across multiple disjointed sources. Employees could
not realize this issue what led to inaccurate and incomplete analysis. The automated system I
developed helped the employees to access all types of information in one location ensuring
that the data is complete. Poor quality data inform of inaccurate data was another issue. The
data inaccuracy was as a result of errors made during data entry. If data is inaccurate, it can
lead to significant negative consequences, if the data is to be used to influence some decision.
Asymmetrical data resulting from system that does not show changes made in another system
leaving behind an outdated data, was another issue. I developed a centralized system that
eliminated this issues. This centralized system allowed the automatically input of data,
leaving no room for human error. The great pressure from above resulting from a large
numbers of reports on all kinds of data, was another challenged that I faced while working for
my previous employer. The centralized system resulted to a comprehensive analysis system
that delivered the desired analysis.
I would love to be a part of a collaborative and team oriented environment after being
given this golden opportunity to work in your company.
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Freedman, E. P. D. (2013). The MBA Student's Job Seeking Bible. La Vergne: [Link].
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