Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Place safety cones around blast areas to alert other workers of danger zones, and signal workers as necessary to ensure that they clear blast sites prior to explosions.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Place explosive charges in holes or other spots; then detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Insert, pack, and pour explosives, such as dynamite, ammonium nitrate, black powder, or slurries into blast holes; then shovel drill cuttings, admit water into boreholes, and tamp material to compact charges.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Mark patterns, locations, and depths of charge holes for drilling, and issue drilling instructions.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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