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In my most recent role, my week had a pretty consistent rhythm. Mornings started with triaging my director’s inbox in Outlook: I filtered 150–200 emails a day, drafted responses for routine items, and flagged 8–10 true priorities with suggested replies. I managed his calendar in Outlook and Teams, scheduling 20–25 meetings weekly and handling all reschedules. Recurring tasks included preparing board decks in PowerPoint, updating budgets in Excel, and maintaining our CRM records in Salesforce. Every Monday, I pulled a status report from Salesforce, cleaned it in Excel, and sent a one-page summary to leadership by noon. On Fridays, I updated our shared OneNote with action items and followed up in Teams with owners. I tracked all my tasks in Planner; my on-time completion rate averaged around 98% over the last year, and my director’s email response time to key partners dropped from about 24 hours to under 6.
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Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
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?
In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?