Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for surveying and mapping technicians. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Set out and recover stakes, marks, or other monumentation.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Search for section corners, property irons, or survey points.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Calculate latitudes, longitudes, angles, areas, or other information for mapmaking, using survey field notes or reference tables.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Enter Global Positioning System (GPS) data, legal deeds, field notes, or land survey reports into geographic information system (GIS) workstations so that information can be transformed into graphic land descriptions, such as maps and drawings.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, electronic distance measuring equipment, or electronic data collectors.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Practice one answer with your own evidence
Pick an occupational task, then outline a real example. This is practice, not a prediction of an employer’s questions.
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Set out and recover stakes, marks, or other monumentation.
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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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