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Situation: At my last company, we needed to increase enterprise pipeline in my territory by 30% in two quarters. Task: Build a highly targeted prospecting engine instead of broad outreach. Action: I started in LinkedIn Sales Navigator, filtering by territory, industry, company size, and tech stack, then layered in buying committee roles (VP Ops, RevOps, Finance). I exported those companies to ZoomInfo/Clearbit for contact enrichment and verified emails, then overlaid 6sense intent data to prioritize accounts showing late-stage research. Next, I segmented A/B/C tiers in Salesforce and synced them into Outreach sequences tailored by segment and persona, with dynamic fields and intent-specific messaging. Result: I increased meeting conversion from 6% to 14%, added $3.2M in qualified pipeline in 90 days, and shortened time-to-first-meeting by 35%.
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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?
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?
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.
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?