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31 Cards in this Set
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Why should we hire you? |
1- I’m excited about the new position which is let me blend all of my experience working as a financial analyst to work in the new product development role focused on predicting future reliability. |
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Why do you think fit here? |
I think fit here because I was learning the job quickly and I will start contributing positively to the team as fast a time as possible. |
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What can you offer to us? |
I believe that I'm a highly effective data analyst who possesses several core qualities and traits that enable me to produce consistent results for your organization. |
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What are the challenges when you join a new client? |
First of all, understand the business, documentation, acronyms and abbreviations, find the key people. (user and small to medium enterprise) |
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How do you make sure that you meet all the deadlines? |
By making a to-do list and prioritize it accordingly. |
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What motivates you? |
Good work environment, recognition, learn something new, to do value adition in the industry with my knowledge. |
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What frustrates you? |
I don’t get frustrated easily, but I get little disappointed if some people is not working as a team or not cordinating with everyone. |
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You like to work in a team or as an individual and why? |
Both, and both have its own advantages. Sometimes i need to more focused and need a calm environment and sometimes need to coordinating with everyone and need to give help from them. |
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Tell me about a time when someone reviewed your work and offered feedback or suggested changes. How did you react and how did you fix the situation? |
In my last project, my project manager reviewed all the use cases I prepared and he asked me to add certain scenarios which were more relevent. Also, with the change request I developed he wanted me to be more conserving for the client satisfaction. I had a very positive attitudes to the changes he referred because I strongly feel that his soggestion was definitely very relevant. |
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Describe a time when your boss assigned you a rush project even though you had other important priorities and how did you deal with the situation? |
In my last job, i was working on multiple projects. And we had tight deadlines and had to rush through it, so, I always creat a target for myself as a TO-DO list so prioritize my tasks and plan them according to deadlines. This really helps me in multitasking during different projects and deal with the situation in a better way. |
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Can you work the required hours of the job including possible overtime if needed? |
Sure, I can work the required hours of the job including overtime if needed. In fact, Ik did overtime in the past with almost all my projects which is very common in financial area. |
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Tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult stakeholder? Or what you do if you had a stakeholder that didn't fully buy in? |
I would meet with them one of one, I would talk through their concern. |
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Tell me about a time when you couldn't solve the problem? |
When I was working as a financial manager in an oil company in Iran ten years ago, the CEO of our project told me that find someone to make a feasibility study for a future project that stakeholders want to run, I had described to him that I could do it strongly, but I had had a little knowledge about it. I prepared a feasibility study, but it was so basic, and it was not difficult to know it was not a nice report. On the day of the presentation, I could not present the project perfectly and learned that never talked about something that I did have not enough knowledge about. |
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Tell me about a time when you were unable to meet a project deadline. How did you react? |
S- on last my job experience, I missed up a project deadline for an important client. T- I missed this deadline because I underestimated the needfor support staff on the project. Despite working overtime, I missed the deadline by three days. A- when I realized that the deadline was fast approaching, I called the client and apologized. I took full accountability for the convenience and provided a new timeline that I could meet. R- I met the second deadline that I promised the client, and they were impressed with my transparent and honest attitude throughput the process. |
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Tell me about a time when you performed the wrong analysis? |
One time my boss came up to me and asked why he wasn't receiving emails from certain clients. At first, I explained to him that I didn't know and that I hadn't heard from the clients either. A couple of days after that I checked the junk1 folder in my email and saw all these emails that should've been going to my boss. I quickly sent them over and told my boss what happened. He had a good laugh and ever since, I've made sure that I checked all my folders.
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How do you ensure quality in your work when there are tight deadlines? |
S-when I was working with SAP (Systems Applications and Products), search platform was a new product to be launched and I needed to prepare a set of documents from scratch. T-my goal was to prepare high quality documents within the stated timeline. A-1. I invested time in understanding the customer requirements properly. 2. then added feature wise documentation in my backlog for each sprint. 3. I kept some buffer rather than any unforeseen change requests or new additions that may arise. R-my time management and effort estimation skills helped me complete all the documents before the internal release deadline, which gathered appreciation from the development team. |
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How do you ensure quality in your work when there are tight deadlines? |
S- I was handling multiple product documentation at CitiBank. There was a time when a coworker left the company and took up her product documentation while working on another project. The development team was not sure how I'm going to handle this project as they had never worked with me before. T- my aim was to first earn the trust of the team members so that they again confidence in my working on multiple projects. A- 1- I prioritized all my projects based on the deadlines at hand. 2- Then I sent an email to them providing a definite date from when I would start working on the tickets raised by the team. As I understand their stress about working with a new member. 3- I collected all the tickets and added to excel file along with other details like where the chance needed to be made in the document. The SMF. SMF stands for System Management Facility, which is a component of z/OS from IBM. The purpose of SMF is to produce records of activity on a mainframe computer that are then recorded to a file. Types of activities which can be recorded by SMF include errors, software usage, network activity, and much more. R-my time management and effort estimation skills helped me complete all the documents before the internal release deadline, which gathered appreciation from the development team. |
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Would you say you are better at delivering the essentials quickly, or delivering quality? |
Consistency providing quality work is very important to me because I want to be reliable to my team. Being consistent, helps my supervisor trust my work and in my ability, to finish tasks that meet standards. I make sure to never rush through a task and give my full attention to each of my responsibilities. I always ask questions about directions and follow up with my colleagues if i am uncertain about something. |
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What is your salary expectation? |
I expect the salary at top end of your range. |
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Why did you leave your last job, or why do you want to leave your current job? |
My company was cutting back, my position was changed in a way that didn’t match my hoals. |
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Do you have any questions for me? |
1- Sure, would you mind have any example of project that i would be working on if I were to be offered the job? 2- what is the typical day for this position? 3- Does the company offer in-hous training to staf? 4- what is the next step? |
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Why do you want this job? |
I'm looking for a job that I can make use my skills that I have learned in university specially in master's degree in real life. Creatively is very important to me, and I've always wanted to work in an environment where I can innovative and find my own solutions to challenges. also feel that your company will continue to evolve in the future, and I like the idea of contributing to that development. |
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Where do you see yourself five years from now? |
1- I don’t know exactly, but the most important things is that I continue to learn and grow my career. I’m kind of person whi needs new challenges to stay focused. I might even start my own business because that is something I’ve always wanted to do at some point of my life. 2- I will have improved my skills and enhanced my knowledge. 3- I will achieve a higher position. 4- I will become a team lether because i had had this skill in my homeland for many years. |
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Do you have experience working on multiple projects at once? |
I do have experience working with multiple projects at once like in my last project, I always try to have a to do list in work. I assign low, mid, or high priority to each task on the list–not to the entire project. And then I work accordingly–taking care of the tasks with highest priority first, regardless of the project they belong to. Of course if I got a call from a manager or a specific deadline was set for me to deliver some report or analysis, I prioritized it to other tasks to ensure I’d meet the deadline. In my opinion, the most important thing is to have a meaningful system in your work, something you can rely on when you aren’t sure what to do next. That’s what I always try to do. |
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Tell me about a time you have deadline with a challenging situation at work? |
Situation: Once, we realized three days before a project deadline that two of our teams were using incompatible software tools. Task: As the member of sprint, I had to find a way to deal with this without causing any delays. Action: I talked to both team leaders, and we made a plan for one team to convert their work into a different format. With help from some staff other department. Result: It was very close, but we managed to get everyone done it on time. |
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What is your leadership style? |
First of all, I'm quite a hands-off manager. For instance, if one of my team has a project, I'll keep an eye on things, but I don’t need to involve in every detail. I'm also very approachable, in that I make sure my team know they come to me with problems or questions at any time. Finally, I like to lead from the front. That means that if every one's working late to meet deadline, I make sure I'm there with them. • In my last job, I was responsible for supervising a team of five, including managing their schedules, training them, and mentoring them. I enjoy leadership and am proud to say that two of these five people were promoted while I was mentoring them. In my job before that, I supervised a team of three designers on certain projects. I wasn’t their direct manager, but they reported to me for the projects I led. So, I have a mix of project management experience from that role and direct management experience from my most recent job. I enjoy both. |
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What are your weaknesses? |
1. I have difficulty speaking in front of large groups of people. A few months ago, I joined a group to help me improve my skills in that area. Talking in front of people, especially a large group of people, is definitely a weakness that a lot of people have. In fact (ba khande), some researchers say that people have a greater fear of public speaking than death which seems a bit extreme to me, but it also seems safe to say that there is a good chance that this might be your weakness or that it at least triggers some idea of what you can talk about when it comes to weaknesses. I need take a training for that. 2. I sometimes am slower in completing my tasks compared to others because I really want to get things right. I will double or sometimes triple-check documents and files to make sure everything is accurate. I have created a time management system, which allows me to list all duties and organize my deadlines, so I have a clearer idea of what I need to do. 3. I'm very calm, and I can keep a cool head even in very stressful situations. |
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Please provide an example where you have used your strength in your last job. |
My organization skills helped me a lot when a change request was processed Because I was able to discuss with users about their priority and requirements, they mentioned in the beginning and how they were related to the scope of the project. |
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What are your strengths (1)? |
1. Firstly, I much focused, determined, very good communication skills and conscientious. I'm very organized and detail oriented. I organize and prioritize my works at every phase of the project, and this is my greatest strength. 2. I'm very good at working with other people, for example, in my last duty as a Financial and Business Analyst in multiple companies, I always tried to encourage my colleagues and create a good atmosphere. 3. I'm a punctual person. I always arrive early and complete my work on time. As you know we have a lot of deadlines in our area, and I made sure that I was organized to respect all my job. |
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What are your strengths (2)? |
4. I consider myself to be a team-player. I like to work with other people, and I find that it's much easier to achieve something when everyone works together and communicates well. 5. I'm proactive. When I think about things, I do them. I like to see result and it's important in this industry to be proactive and responsible for your action. 6. When I work. I always take initiative. If I see something that needs doing, I don’t wait for instruction, I do it. I believe that to be get anywhere in life, you need this quality. 7. I've always set myself goals and motivates me to work hard. I have achieved my goals so far with my training, education and work experience and now I am looking for ways to improve myself and grow. |
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Tell me a little about yourself. |
• I have over five years of experience as a data analyst in financial area. Business Analyst, credit Analyst, Portfolio Analyst and Investing Banking. • Since 2017 I've started master's program in statistics and information management with specialization in risk analysis and management, by that program I'm able understanding about investment Banking and insurance like (Stock Exchange, Fixed Income, Stock/Bonds, Equites, Options/Futures, swap, Trading Operations, Mutual Funds etc.). Also, Extensive understanding about Basel accords and credit Analysis. I was able to strong understand of Mortgage banking, Credit Approval System, MBS (Mortgage-backed securities) and somethings like that. • I am Highly efficient in statistical modeling for time series like ARMA, Arch, Garch, EWMA, Monte Carlo for predict future return by using volatility. • most recently my working was in a Business and credit Analysis role. in these roles, I analyze business and financial data to provide actionable insight to the business. • I'm able to work with stakeholders across of variety of levels and departments within the organization. • I started my career working as an auditor and accountant for more than 13 years. I've been moved into more financially focus roles within that organization. • Over the years, I've built up expensive experience as a data analyst and my resume demonstrates this. I can assess each data analysis task from a strategic perspective. Meaning the work, I carry out will be beneficial to your organization goals. • I can work strict deadlines. • I also possess strong communication and interpersonal skills. Which means I can fit quickly and seamlessly into any team or department. |
