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									Share an experience in which you've successfully learned how to handle a new piece of equipment? | 
									
										
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									Tell me about a recent experience you've had working with your hands.  | 
									
										
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									Tell me about the last time you monitored or reviewed information and detected a problem. How did you respond?  | 
									
										
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									Walk me through how you would remove workpieces from machines, and check to ensure that they conform to specifications, using measuring instruments such as microscopes, gauges, calipers, and micrometers. | 
									
										
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									What have you found to be the best way to observe milling or planing machine operation and adjust controls to ensure conformance with specified tolerances? Share an example. | 
									
										
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									Share an experience in which your diligence of inspecting equipment, structures, or materials helped you identify a problem or the cause of a problem.  | 
									
										
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									Share an experience when you applied new technology or information in your job. How did it help your company?  | 
									
										
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									Share your approach to study blueprints, layouts, sketches, or work orders to assess workpiece specifications and to determine tooling instructions, tools and materials needed, and sequences of operations. | 
									
										
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									What factors do you consider when you compute dimensions, tolerances, and angles of workpieces or machines, according to specifications and knowledge of metal properties and shop mathematics? | 
									
										
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									Tell me about an experience in which you analyzed information and evaluated results to choose the best solution to a problem. | 
									
										
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									Share an experience in which your attention to detail and thoroughness had an impact on your last company.  | 
									
										
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									What is the most challenging part of selecting cutting speeds, feed rates, and depths of cuts, applying knowledge of metal properties and shop mathematics? | 
									
										
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									What kind of experience do you have selecting and installing the correct cutting tools and other accessories according to specifications, using hand tools or power tools? | 
									
										
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									Share an example of when you went above and beyond the "call of duty". (Look for answers that show the candidate is dependable.) | 
									
										
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									Give me an example of when you thought outside of the box. How did it help your employer? | 
									
										
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