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$5000 worth of products.”

Or,

“I had been in my job for about 3 months when I realized that we kept stumbling
over the same problem [X]. I mentioned it to my boss, but he was locked into a
big project and didn’t have time to do anything about it, or really even discuss it
with me. I talked to some counterparts in other divisions of the company to see
what they were doing, realized they had a similar problem with no solution, so
then I went to work. I did some online research to get a stronger understanding of
what was going on, and I found a book that related to the topic. I started a
discussion about it in a LinkedIn group, and ended up with quite a few helpful
insights and ideas.

With that information, I came up with a plan of attack and presented it to my boss, who thought it
was terrific and gave me the go ahead. I presented it to my group with a PowerPoint presentation and
got them on board. We began implementing it the next day, and it worked like a charm. It improved
our X by X% and actually freed up enough time for us as a whole that we were also able to
accomplish XYZ where we’d never had time for that before.”

Your answer shouldn’t take more than a minute to two at the most. Walk them through the story,
give them the details that help them see your value, and end on a positive note.