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I am very proud of the fact that I set a goal of signing 50 new members by the end of the year, and I acplished that. See also this page of our Job Interviewing Tutorial. 19. Describe what you39。s time. I39。s product offering, organizational structure, and professional sales techniques so that I may bee the most productive member of your sales team. 22. What do you expect to be doing in five years? Sample excellent response:Although it is hard to predict the future, I sincerely believe that I will bee a very good financial consultant. I believe that my abilities will allow me to excel to the point that I can seek other opportunities as a portfolio manager (the next step) and possibly even higher. My ultimate goal continues to be and will always be to be the best at whatever level I am working at within Merrill Lynch39。 I told her that I had a native speaker review the essay, but he made very few corrections. However, I had broken the Golden Rule of Spanish Composition the essay must not even touch the hands of a native speaker. To prove to her that I was capable of producing an essay that exceeded her expectations of a nonnative speaker, I offered to rewrite another essay in her office. I earned an Aminus. See also this page of our Job Interviewing Tutorial. 26. Tell me about a major problem you recently handled. Were you successful in resolving it? Sample excellent response:While working at Kmart, I was one of three people to work in the electronics department. One day upon arriving at work, I was told the district manager was ing the next day to do a store inspection. The two other people who worked in electronics were both over 55. Neither could lift heavy objects, and one refused to work at all. As a result, the electronics department was usually left to me to keep stocked with product and kept in order. I had about five hours of work time to get the entire department in order. Those five hours passed around, and there was still a substantial amount of work to be done. I asked the store manager if I could stay and work after hours while the overnight stockers were there. He said that because of the employme