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Tell me about a time that you did something innovative!
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A some version of that question can be a part of McKinsey Entrepreneurial Drive Dimension.
It’s good to give a work example here and highlight the following:
- Before you came things were always done in this old conventional way – then you saw it and you came up with a better idea how to do it
- You then executed on it even though nobody asked you to (it was your own initiative)
- People recognised the value of your solution and found it helpful
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Daniel
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I have created an Excel spreadsheet that randomly gives me recipes
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Build a python code to match people in the office for coffee dates.
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I constructed a disposable bin for a class. I validated my idea by conducting interviews with 25+ people
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I defined, launched and managed a social collaboration tool for the entire group. In 2013, social collaboration was not yet as popular as it is today (after Corona).
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During my PhD I used an innovative tool to monitor a process in real-time which required collaboration across two different labs. The main challenge was to convince both parties about my approach and start with a good hypothesis. This required data collection from literature and effective communication with good PowerPoint slides. The results of this study will be published in a top tier journal.
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We were working on creating a self-supporting mechanism made of metal to hold 2 nozzles in one place with 1 degree of freedom. Instead of drilling holes or any other process, we simply welded 2 set of flat metal strips in a way through which the nozzle could be moved as well as fixed.
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One time at a university fair, there was a stand showing the newest technology of motion-capturing cameras, like the ones used in video games, and while interacting with the software and seeing how it can detect our body movements, one of the students asks the presenter if it could detect people if they were not standing, for example, upside down, the presenter proposed to try it out and the student started doing barrel wheels to see if the camera still detects him, so I went to the camera and fliped it upside down. I though it was quite obvious but apparently people present were impressed by this innovation.
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