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Consider The Inevitable
Among a few unavoidable circumstances in life is aging. It happens to everyone. If we have been fortunate in our lives, we may have built a strong network of family and friends, maybe accumulated a retirement fund, an investment portfolio, real estate and other representations of accomplishment. If you’re not there yet, there’s something to strive for! However, individual results may vary!
No matter the stage of your career or work-life, you’ve undoubtedly accumulated a lot of things to keep track of, not just on – or about - your job, but in your personal life, as well. Just to name a few: passwords, logins and subscriptions for a long list of things; bank accounts; retirement accounts; health insurance policies for yourself and your family; car and home insurance; home utilities; telephone and internet service providers; streaming services; and ………
The volume of information we manage for ourselves is often huge, and often overwhelming. With the importance of security being stressed on the corporate level, almost every website that requires your sign-in will eventually ask you to log in again. If you don’t recall your password for that site, you hit the “Forgot my password” button and go through the annoying process of confirming your identity, then coming up with a new password that meets the website’s requirements. And sooner or later for that same site, you’ll face another, “Doh!” moment the next time you go .... (read more: https://hanklondon.com/consider-the-inevitable/
Every few weeks we pose a question you might get asked during an interview and a suggestion on how you might formulate your answer.
This week’s question:
If you came to work and the doors were all locked and the lights were off, what would you do first?
Amongst other things, this question might convey to the employer how you handle unexpected workplace difficulties. Will you turn around and go home? Will you call the building supervisor to determine why the doors are locked? Will you text a supervisor, someone from company management or HR? The smartest way to answer this query is convey your ability to roll with the punches. You might reach out to whomever is responsible for opening up your workspace to find out why they’ve been delayed, or seek another means of entry. State that you will try to find out the why behind the closure before making any negative assumptions about the company or responsible individual. Tell your inquisitor that you don’t plan to violate any building security protocols, and that if something were seriously wrong you would take the appropriate action, notify responsible parties, stay calm, and not jump to conclusions. And, if the company had been taken over or deliberately shuttered for other reasons you expect that you would probably be personally notified. Hopefully you didn’t just show up to work on a day the offices were actually closed!
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