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| gehzumteufel |
| So I had an interview with a CEO for an Executive Assistant position on wed. As some of you know, he wanted a few extra things. I supplied them to him and he has been asking me questions since this morning via email. He just emailed me asking me what makes me mad, and if I have ever failed at something that was really important to me. Is it bad if I say I have never failed at something that was really important to me, but I have had small "failures" in a sense, but find a way to make them work in some form or fashion? |
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| NeoPhono |
| Make one of the small failures seem major. He just wants to see how you dealt with failure and were able to continue on. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
Make one of the small failures seem major. He just wants to see how you dealt with failure and were able to continue on. |
hmm, I will have to try to figure that out. I have never plain failed at anything. I may have had setbacks, but I always find a way to make it work. |
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| NeoPhono |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
hmm, I will have to try to figure that out. I have never plain failed at anything. I may have had setbacks, but I always find a way to make it work. |
Yeah, unfortunately I think that's what they might be looking for though. Everybody has setbacks, but I'm guessing it's the typical "have you faced utter defeat yet still had the ability to keep trying" type of interview question. Preferably make the failure due to an instance where you gave it your all but luck or circumstances outside your control made things not work. Just hint that the failure only made you want to work harder... |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
He just emailed me asking me what makes me mad, and if I have ever failed at something that was really important to me. Is it bad if I say I have never failed at something that was really important to me, |
Yes, because you're a lying bastard if you say that.
Pick one, don't fabricate it.
| quote: | | but I have had small "failures" in a sense, but find a way to make them work in some form or fashion? |
Only small ones?
Gee, you must lead some kind of charmed life... I've had some horrors...
What we do when we booboo?
You can either work through with either the team you're a part of to salvage something worthwhile or request outside advice if you're a lone operator as to alternative solutions.
("I asked teh COR" is not an acceptable solution, the COR laughs at your fails! har!)
However, what we do when we fail is to take stock of where it went wrong in an analysis of the end result and take note so that if asked to do it again, we have already got a critical risk analysis ready to formulate a new strategy which will minimise risks in further projects. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
Yeah, unfortunately I think that's what they might be looking for though. Everybody has setbacks, but I'm guessing it's the typical "have you faced utter defeat yet still had the ability to keep trying" type of interview question. Preferably make the failure due to an instance where you gave it your all but luck or circumstances outside your control made things not work. Just hint that the failure only made you want to work harder... |
Yeah exactly. I just really haven't had that, in the professional world anyways.
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Yes, because you're a lying bastard if you say that.
Pick one, don't fabricate it.
Only small ones?
Gee, you must lead some kind of charmed life... I've had some horrors...
What we do when we booboo?
You can either work through with either the team you're a part of to salvage something worthwhile or request outside advice if you're a lone operator as to alternative solutions.
("I asked teh COR" is not an acceptable solution, the COR laughs at your fails! har!)
However, what we do when we fail is to take stock of where it went wrong in an analysis of the end result and take note so that if asked to do it again, we have already got a critical risk analysis ready to formulate a new strategy which will minimise risks in further projects. |
So what constitutes as utter failure? I really have never utterly failed at anything. I may FEEL like I did, but I just got back up and conquered. Honestly.
edit//and no I don't lead any charmed life. I have made many mistakes and am paying for them now, but I am dealing with it and getting through it. |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
I have made many mistakes and am paying for them now, but I am dealing with it and getting through it. |
Cite them (not to me!) and then show how you're going about the recovery and formulating a new risk management strategy for how you'll avoid making them in the future
Utter failure?
I dunno, losing 1.5mil in land, 200k in bad shares here and there once in awhile kind of burnt... (One I could do nothing about, the other was entirely my dumb fault) |
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| Intuition |
inb4dafailpost.
And I agree with this advice:
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
Make one of the small failures seem major. He just wants to see how you dealt with failure and were able to continue on. |
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| iammesol |
| But don't you learn from your mistakes? Go into detail about how you epic pwn at getting back on your feet! |
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| gehzumteufel |
So then by what I am getting from the both of you, a mistake, is a form of failure that they are looking for?
Not that I didn't think of mistakes as a form of failure, but I usually associate failure, with being the end of whatever it was. No further progression can be made.
edit//And yes I have made mistakes that have resulted in corrections of myself. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| ask lionslair to help, im sure he has many examples. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
ask lionslair to help, im sure he has many examples. |
ROFL :p |
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