Personal Flashcards
Tell me about yourself./Walk me through your resume.
- recent NYU grad with a masters in public health
- gravitated towards the “business-side of public health”: entrepreneurship, data management, customer discovery, marketing
- entered the health startup realm
- wore many hats (jack of all trades), but was most interested in projects and tasks that involved: gathering information via research, using that to then generate insights that could be used to optimize operations/marketing efforts, strategy, and hopefully presenting that in a way to leadership and decision makers that leads to action, implementation.
- after working at my first startup, i branched off and decided to cofound a startup with former colleagues and peers.
- for the past 5 months or so we’ve been focused on customer discovery– building out hypothesis, developing a validation plan, determining metrics, etc.
- that has led me to want to deepen my experience in DNA
- led me to reconnect with nick and kevin, learn more about their roles in the company etc.
Why is working in healthcare important to you?
What is your greatest strength and greatest weakness?
Greatest strength: communication and public speaking. began early (in high school) and by undergrad I was competing on NYU’s mock trial team. We were ranked 3rd in the country, and I was ranked a 5-time all american. Those skills translated –team relationships, pitching slide decks, client communications.
Greatest weakness: too meticulous and it comes from what I’d describe as a terminal case of curiousity. “I like to know how and why things work; not just that they work”. One hand it inspires inquisitiveness, persistence, logic. Other times, you can go down the rabbit hole trying to learn ins and outs.
What is your communication style?
Medium:
Email and in-person meetings.
In-person meetings: calls/skype. I like being able to see people’s faces and have direct communication.
Email: record of tasks, projects, status
Frequency: Daily-be on same page about expectations, work quality
Style: communicate clearly, concisely, cordially. transparent from both ends.
How do you stay organized?
Tools: I use a lot of Excel and Asana, physical journal
Process: Importance, urgency, completion time, and resources
Why Digitas Health and why this role?
- company culture. (convos w/ kevin and nick to gesa and chana)
- company mission. purpose: helping, not selling. We are proud to build brands that help people make more confident healthcare decisions.
- long-term professional growth. it seems that many people stay here for years (chris)
This role: analytical approach, like analyzing data, i like that in the applied analytics group – not just about data mania and observations, but crafting insights and creating visualizations
Describe your ability to insert oneself into project with examples
Very vocal at the first stages of project planning during discussions about deliverables and team roles. “I’m happy take that on”. Assessing what would most benefit the team, but also what’s a challenge for me and where I can learn/grow.
Why pharma/healthcare advertising?
It’s a challenge. From a PH perspective, it’s really difficult to get people to invest in their health.
What pharmaceutical experience do you possess?
None. But I can learn and pick it up pretty quickly.
How to communicate with clients in stressful situations?
- clear concise
- calm and controlled, but having empathy
- explaining where we are in the process and any complications
- being available and accessible for questions
How have you handled delivering criticism on a colleague’s work?
- have a lot of experience with this, training people that i’ve worked with
- focus on delivery, asks questions to better understand their reasoning and then guide the conversation to areas of improvement
Do you love to win or hate to lose
- Highly competitive.
- If you love winning, it becomes a celebratory event. If you hate losing, winning is your baseline comfort and anything less is unacceptable.
- interesting fact: Professor Kanheman, a renowned professor at Princeton University who won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, explains the theory that shows we tend to look at things from ‘gains and losses’. We have a loss aversion and the ratio up to 3:1. This means we value not losing up to three times higher than actually winning.
What’s my approach to dealing with difficult leaders?
I talked about establishing relationships and tailoring my interactions with difficult leaders to align with their expectations
What is your work style? Alone/Team
Depends on how new I am to the role/team.
When new to a role:
I do like to be given a project, the expectations of what/how to do something clearly laid out for me, and then be allowed to give it a go on my own. After that, getting detailed feedback, shadowing someone else with a similar project, is how I learn best.
Important that my teammates feel I’m equipped enough to handle projects without much help.
I believe that creativity and the highest quality work product come to life in a collaborative environment, where multiple ppl are contributing to a project and can have input.
