Planning and Organizing

• How do you organize your work day?
• How often is your time schedule upset by unforeseen circumstances? What do you do when that happens? Tell me about a specific time.
• Describe a typical day/a typical week. (Listen for planning in the answer.)
• How do you establish priorities in scheduling your time? Give examples.
• What is your procedure for keeping track of items requiring your attention?
• We have all had times when we just could not get everything done on time. Tell me about a time that this happened to you. What did you do?
• Tell me how you establish a course of action to accomplish specific long- and short-term goals.
• Do you postpone things? What are good reasons to postpone things?
• How do you catch up on an accumulated backlog of work after a vacation or conference?