How do you multitask?

Patty Eckstein

Need advice on handling priorities on a daily basis at work.

N0help4u

you have to be able to do more than one thing at a time and have the coordination and the ability juggle everything and be alert and on top of it all.

Basically get a pattern and a method to do more than one thing at a time

N0help4u

First make a list of everything and put it in order of first priority on down. Then you can check off the list as you go down.

ScottGem

multitasking is doing multiple things sport of simultaneously. what has that got to do with job interviews?

Clough

Hi, Patty Eckstein!

If I'm doing a job that requires me to multi-task and involves being responsible to a number of people who make requests of me to do things that need to be solved in a short amount of time, and/or where I need to be leading people on an individual and/or group basis where there is only an alloted time in which to get things done, then I'll do what needs to be done in a short amount or allocated amount of time first. As I'm doing those things, then I'll be working in short spurts on the things where I have more time in which to get the longer-range of alloted time tasks completed.

When a person works with and/or leading a number of people, explaining how you might multi-task could very possibly be a question that will come up in an interview.

Some examples of jobs where being able to multi-task might be essential to performing in the best way possible to make the employee indispensible at performing the job would be, school teachers, librarians, employers who have multiple employees, secretaries - where people are constantly coming into the office with agendas, requests and demands, people who work in various positions in restaurants, leaders of groups of people in musical groups of various kinds, people who have jobs where they might need to handle multiple incoming phone calls, etc.

Thanks!