How do you juggle high-priority competing projects?

Another common question, interviewers who ask this – or variations, such as ‘how do you handle multiple deadlines?’ or ‘how do you prioritise your work?’ – want to know how you handle your workload and manage your time.

The best way to address this is to talk about your skills in time management. Consider how you schedule your day, how you prioritise different work assignments, and how you maintain a good work-life balance.

For example, “At the beginning of each week, I schedule a time to sit down with my manager to discuss upcoming deadlines and priorities. Then I schedule my week accordingly. I like to get the most difficult or complex tasks done first thing in the morning or early in the week to give myself a buffer in case they take longer than expected or I need to ask for help. A lot of my work involves data entry tasks that don’t have any hard, urgent deadlines, so I make sure I set an hour every afternoon to process that so I stay on top of it.”