hey it's Don with jobinterviewtools.com
I had a customer write in the other day
the guy has an interview coming up with
Best Buy and he wants to know what kind
of interview questions Best Buy might
ask him he says Don I'm going to be
interviewing with that's why on Friday
for a space analyst position it's an
inventory type merchandising position he
says I have two questions for you what
is the best response to the interview
question tell me about a time when you
missed a deadline and why did you miss
the deadline and what did you do to
resolve it he says also if you have any
recommendations to specific questions
you think Best Buy might ask me I'd love
to hear
well Kyle since this is Best Buy and
they're a retail store be prepared for
questions relating to working you are
past your scheduled time working
weekends coming in early multitasking
you may have to lend a hand to another
department who is short-staffed that's
just the way retail stores work also
teamwork questions how good are you at
working with others to get a job done
and I think Best Buy is I think Best Buy
is really just one big team of people so
you're gonna have to work together show
that skill off also compromising if
you're working with others to get
something done how are you going to
handle it if the honors you're working
with want to do it a different way and
is there a way as good as yours what are
you going to do will you go to their
boss what if no bosses are available and
you have a tight deadline how are you
going to handle that situation also how
are you going to handle it if the store
is swamped and the camera department
needs help and your boss told you to
help out with the camera department but
you don't know anything about cameras
are you the kind of person who's going
to step up and lend a hand to your boss
without a droopy face and a whine saying
boohoo I don't know anything about
cameras the correct answer is a
resounding
yes sir because this is an opportunity
to learn and you have nothing to lose by
helping out some customers in the
Canberra department let them know that
you can work independently let them know
you have you know how to follow
directions that you require a little
supervision and that you can think for
yourself but also prefer working in a
team environment because you feel it's
more productive that way now I'm not
sure specifically of the job
requirements for your space analyst
position but since this is a retail
anything in happened and I believe they
would prefer employees who can wear as
many hats as possible and are ready and
willing to help out any of their
co-workers also keep in mind that Best
Buy is very customer centric without
happy customers there are no fat profits
now I like shopping at Best Buy because
they usually do whatever it takes to
make me happy and that's what keeps me
coming back now to get to your questions
where you ask tell me about a time when
you missed a deadline describe a project
that you worked on and what the expected
outcome was then explain what really
happened what you learned from the
experience now this takes what is
expected to be a negative answer
that turns it around into a positive one
now for your question why did you miss
the deadline you can say something like
early on in my career I tried to promise
the world and thought I could get
anything done in a short amount of time
but as a result of my inexperience I
over-promised and missed a deadline but
I've since learned to prepare and plan
for unforeseen events and now I deliver
what I promised on time use these
positive faults to help explain the
reason your project didn't work out you
can say I have a tendency to take on a
greater workload than I can handle but
I'm working on this problem by
delegating more of my tasks look you can
also say with closing deadlines I can be
impatient
so now I'm identifying holdups that
could cause a missed deadline now keep
in mind everybody misses the deadline
but you want to tell them you have
learned from your experiences that's the
key and that now you're better prepared
to identify the things that cause people
to miss deadlines and that you're able
to make more accurate predictions this
is Don Georgevich for job interview
tools.com wishing you all the best on
your next interview we'll see you next
time