to do my long-term projects. If something gets added, I
move my priorities around so that I can get the things that
I have to do that day done on time and move the less
urgent things to tomorrow’s schedule.”
■“I consider my time management skills to be my strongest
asset. For as long as I can remember, I have always organ-
ized my work every day and plan in reverse to meet my
appointments and deadlines. In other words, if I have to be
somewhere at 2:00 P.M., I start planning when I will have to
leave for that appointment hours before I actually leave. If
you asked people who know me, they would tell you I am
very reliable when it comes to being on time.”
■“When it comes to time management, I am very depend-
able. In fact as a support person I had to remind my boss
when she had to be somewhere and how long it would
take her to get there. My last boss was a last-minute
person who would have missed many airplanes if I hadn’t
reminded her to leave hours before the flight. She consid-
ered me her ‘right-hand man.’”
“If two people give you projects to be completed by
the end of the day and you only have time to do one,
how do you proceed?”
■“This goes hand in hand with prioritizing. I would look at
the deadline and the importance of the impact of that
deadline and then make a decision. I will always ask first if
there is any leeway in deadlines. If there isn’t, I would try to
get help or push until I got it done. I have had to work with
people when it was impossible to do the two things at once
and have found that if I am willing to push and do what-
ever I can, they have been willing to let go a bit as well.”
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