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At my previous company, I was asked to migrate a manual reporting process into Power BI within two weeks to support a quarterly review for 12 department heads. My task was to learn Power BI from scratch and deliver accurate dashboards on time. I blocked the first two days for focused learning: Microsoft’s guided labs, one Udemy crash course, and replicating 3 existing Excel reports in a test workspace. To avoid errors, I created a validation checklist, spot-checked 100% of KPIs against Excel, and had a 30-minute daily review with the finance lead. I documented every data transform in a shared Confluence page. The result: dashboards delivered 3 days early, manual reporting time reduced by 60%, and error rates dropped to near zero over the next quarter.
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Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
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