interview question...

[vetran]

if they are into time management this will get you past it:

The Urgent/Important Matrix - Time Management Skills from MindTools.com


this is popular

http://boykepurnomo.staff.ugm.ac.id/...ive-people.pdf

Say yes to the person but get stuffed to the task!

I would really like to help you but my dance card is full with these urgent projects for VP X,Y & Z - sorry.

[NotAllThere]

Actually answer is someone else should be able to tell you what your priorities are.

Not possible in my case. I'm working on five (soon to be 6) independent projects.

[oscarose]

Its a serious response aimed at figuring out just how much of a bunch of morons I am on the verge of working with. I am on blood pressure tablets for the rest of my life mostly thanks to five years of truly Trojan epic nasty projects. I am at a position where I can notice a correlation between broken companies and ones that like to give their humans unmanageable tasks one after another and relying on them getting to the verge of death achieving them.

I like solving problems, not herding cats - not designing without requirements - and most of all not trying to build out solutions in three months despite the fact that the companies own procedures ensure it takes six at best.

I'd rather let the job go to someone else

Don't let that blood pressure rise!

Thanks for sharing.

[GB9]

Any suggestions on how to answer the interview question that goes...

'how do you prioritise to hit tight deadlines whilst working on muliple projects?'

Sensible answers please.

Which is most important to you Mr. Client, as it is your priorities I am delivering.

[oscarose]

Which is most important to you Mr. Client, as it is your priorities I am delivering.

Technical BA perm. New territory.



It's a new job or the SAS boot camp.

[bobspud]

if they are into time management this will get you past it:

The Urgent/Important Matrix - Time Management Skills from MindTools.com

I like this one however surely by the time you have been through this epic effort, all of the prioritisation candidates have moved from important none urgent all the way to buying issue needs to be done now !!!

[vetran]

I like this one however surely by the time you have been through this epic effort, all of the prioritisation candidates have moved from important none urgent all the way to buying issue needs to be done now !!!

no a piece of paper / tool & 10 minutes tops.


key thing is to get them in order and defer / refuse the ones you just can't do.

[jmo21]

Current client co boss asked me something similar in my interview for this contract.... "how do you deal with tight deadlines, vague requirements".

Without thinking, I blurted out, "does that happen a lot here"?

it got a smile, and I recovered well enough with my answer.

[DS23]

"dancing on the cusp of the catastrophe curve." i like it!