Job Title:

Reference Number: RRS#:

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Position Description:

General Advice / Lessons Learned:

• Emphatic on opening statement describing you are there for the interview.
• Itemize CAR delivery in a bulleted format – Avoid too much time on Context, with cohesive
answers, and summarize to a closure.
• Clearly understand the technical and leadership parts of the question – only the technical
should have high level technical details, while rest is all about leadership.
• Frame non-technical actions exhibiting leadership qualities.
• Use team-building examples.
• Use FCL in the elevated speech – any external experiences!
• Use examples – pulling teams together and long term engagements.
• Highlight experiences to the point and explaining about the different applications importance,
including emphasis on architecture principles as illustrated in the patterns.
• Adaptive Compression – Why, and what benefits?
• Complexity reduction – monitoring script significance and management
• Security vulnerability rating and implementation – your role in engineering the solution, into
planning and managing rollouts.
• Reaching out to AD/AM/ITO/Business customer – ECI performance issues.
• Relevance of example to ITO than AD preferable.
• Limited bragging is required with defined scope within the questions.
• Use key words that are in the leadership behavior.
• Group deliverables and your role as a leader.
• Closing statement to be assertive highlighting why you are the candidate.
• Do not sound desperate.

Come up with a question or two about the job position:

• Other than GreenPlum and WebLogic engineering, are there plans to evaluate other database
technologies in IMDB space?
• If I am offered this position, what are the success factors that I will be measured against?

Do not use:
 Agreed to disagree
 “We” a lot. Use of I and We should be distinctly used.

Leadership Qualities
Functional Proficiency
• Exhibits professional excellence, including: Possessing needed education, training, and
experience as well as demonstrating knowledge.

Business Acumen
• Understands the essential requirements of our business, including: Knowing the basic business
principles to achieve quality, customer, and profit outcomes in a global environment as well as
knowing both The company's global business operations and the context in which they operate

Systemic Thinking
 • Sees beyond the details, including: Recognizing the importance of interdependencies and acting
on multiple aspects of the process to get results; Identifying and pursuing opportunities to
improve processes as well as leading and managing systematic change efforts.

Courage
• Takes action in the face of challenge, including: questioning the status quo and taking reasoned
risks; Demonstrating independent judgment and self-confidence, even in stressful situations.

Desire to Serve
• Demonstrates personal commitment, including: Demonstrating passion for knowing and
meeting customer requirements as well as dedicating oneself to achieving The company's
objectives and acting in The company's best interests; Accepting willingly different functional
and geographical assignments.

Drive for Results

• Gets the job done, including; Developing stretch objectives and accepting responsibility for
accomplishing them within agreed upon boundaries; Identifying appropriate processes, which
includes prioritizing key issues, directing resources, and developing metrics to measure
achievement; Maintaining flexibility in involving others, negotiating agreements, and breaking
down chimneys to achieve optimal, timely results.

Durability
• Perseveres despite hardship, including: Maintaining focus, intensity, and persistence under
adversity; Showing tenacity in securing and using resources to achieve desired results; Staying
the course to achieve agreed upon objectives, even in ambiguous and complex situations

Team Work
• Collaborates to achieve results, including: Committing to and accepting responsibility for team
oriented behavior; valuing working with team members who have different perspectives and
backgrounds as well as breaking down barriers and chimneys to ensure effectiveness and
optimize results.

Innovation
• Applies learning for competitive advantage, including: Demonstrating adaptability and flexibility
in getting the job done; Improving future results be seeking out alternative and new ways of
doing business as well as applying lessons learned from successes and failures.

Integrity
• Does the right thing, including: Exemplifying honesty and maintaining trustworthiness,
demonstrating dependability, and exercising principled judgement?

Communication
• Exchanges information and ideas that impact and influence others, including: Providing
information clearly and concisely with compelling, concise evidence to.

One Ford Behavior

Foster Functional and Technical Excellence

 Passion for business and customers

 Demonstrate functional and technical excellence
 Ensure process discipline
 Continuous improvement philosophy and practice

Own and Working Together

  Believe in motivated and skilled working together
 Inclusion, respect, listens, help and appreciate
 Build strong relationships – develop self and others
 Communicate – concise, clear, and candid

Role Model Ford Values

 Show initiative, courage, integrity, and good corporate citizenship

 Improve quality, safety, and sustainability
 Can do, find a way attitude and emotional resilience
 Enjoy journey, and each other

Deliver Results

 Develop compelling and comprehensive plans, keeping enterprise views

 Set high expectations, and inspire others
 Make sound decisions using facts and data
 Accountability and responsibility – satisfy customers

Instructions:
• You do not need to ask an interview question assessing Communication. Instead, use the rating
scale provided below and assign based on your observations during the interview

Questions and Answers

 Functional Proficiency: Describe how your background has prepared you for the key challenges facing (Oracle Application Server /
Oracle DB Team Lead) today.
 Business Acumen: Describe how your training and experience have prepared you for the position you are applying for.

 Functional Proficiency: Describe a time when you worked on an activity or project that was similar to the activities you would
perform as a (Oracle Application Server / Oracle DB Team Lead) at the company
 Business Acumen: Describe the training and experience you have had that will contribute for The company's success as a global
business.
 Business Acumen: Describe an accomplishment that best illustrates an application of your business knowledge and skills to "real"
problems.

 Systemic Thinking: Describe a time when you had to solve a problem that required coordinating numerous different processes and/or
integrating different types of information.

 Systemic Thinking: Describe a system or process you have worked with in which several different considerations had to be
coordinated to make the system work successfully.

 Systemic Thinking: Describe a time when you were involved in an effort to improve a process, system, or policy.
 Team Work: Describe a time when you contributed to a team's ability to reach a consensus decision and/or achieve results.

 Systemic Thinking: Describe a time when you questioned the value or utility of a process, product, or policy.
 Courage: Describe a time when you questioned the value or utility of a process, product or policy.

 Courage: Describe a time when you made a decision or took action that people disagreed with.
 Business Acumen: Describe an accomplishment that best illustrates an application of your business knowledge and skills to "real"
problems.

 Courage: Describe a situation where you were asked to complete an activity or project that required you to use skills that were not
your strengths.
 Drive For Results: Describe a time when you were given primary responsibility for a project.
 Drive For Results: Describe a project or process that required involving others who preferred no involvement or made the project
challenging because of their different perspectives
 Drive For Results: Describe a project or process that required involving others who preferred no involvement or made the project
challenging because of their different perspectives
 Durability: Describe a project that required you to secure scarce resources.
 Durability: Describe an extensive or long-term assignment you worked on that you felt was complex.
 Team Work: Describe a time when you worked on a team and had to focus your efforts on breaking down barriers to the team's
effectiveness before the team could be successful in its endeavors (e.g. getting team members to listen to and incorporate others'
perspectives and/or accept others from different backgrounds.
 Team Work: We have all worked on teams where the team members had different interests, backgrounds and perspectives. Describe a
time when you worked on such a team.
 Integrity: Describe a time when your personal integrity was challenged.
 Innovation: Describe a time when you suggested an idea for a project or activity that was considerably different from the standard way
of doing the project or activity.

 Courage: Describe a time in which you had to take a reasoned risk.

 Courage: Describe a time when you were trying to meet a customer's needs while balancing organizational needs
 Courage: Describe a time when you were asked to work on an activity or project that was not in your area of interest.
 Courage: Describe a time when you anticipated a customer's needs and met or exceeded his/her expectations.
 Courage: Tell me about a time when you went the extra mile on something or did more than was expected of you.

 Drive For Results: Describe a time when you had to manage multiple demands in order to succeed (e.g. high volume of work, many
projects at once, difficult tasks, etc.) What did you do?
 Drive For Results: Describe the most complex project you have completed. How did you manage the complexity?
 Integrity: Describe a time when you had difficulty dealing with your workload.

 Innovation: Describe a time when you had to generate alternate ways to complete a task or accomplish an objective
 Integrity: Describe a time when you were working on a project and felt pressured to take a short cut to meet a deadline that you
thought would affect the project's quality.

 Durability: Describe a time when you were given a project for which the method to successfully complete the project was unclear and
the objectives continually changed.

 Durability: Describe a time or project when obstacles seemed insurmountable and you felt as though you would never reach the end of
the project.

 Innovation: Describe a time when you experienced a failure and were able to apply what you leaned to another situation.

 Innovation: Describe a time when an unexpected event occurred and required you to work outside your normal scope of responsibility.

 Integrity: Describe a time when you had to decide whether or not tot share bad news with a coworker or boss.