This position has a lot of responsibility and several tasks often come at you at once with all of them having high priorities. How do you deal with this type of a situation and what tools have you used to help you manage your tasks to ensure nothing gets left out?

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It is actually 2 questions, – how to handle priorities, and how to manage tasks.

“It’s important to communicate with managers and users to solve conflicts. Although all tasks are in high priorities, some must be higher than others. I would look into each task in detail and talk to my manger to analyze the priority. In general tasks required from higher authorities such as executive directors come with higher priority. I would also look at the expected time span to complete a task. If a task takes short time to finish, I may do it first. Another thing to look is the chain effects. If a task is dependent on the result of another task, I would do the master task first. As for manage daily tasks, I used Microsoft Project for task scheduling and analysis. I also used Microsoft Outlook to maintain a daily task list.”