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Question 41 of 60
What would you do if you realized at deadline time a report you wrote for your boss would not meet your standard or their expectations?
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"Well, I think I'd be confused how such a thing happened. I would immediately own it, head hung low, and inform my supervisor of the situation and ask how I could make up for it. I would ask them for their advice and guidance from their level of experience and perspective. I'd want to learn and grow as quickly as possible to put the issue behind me and restore credibility."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
With this question, your interviewer will be evaluating your judgement, personal integrity, values, and ethics. It will examine your decisiveness, your ability to deal with difficult situations, and your communication skills. Not only are they watching to see if your instincts are to accept responsibilities for your actions, but also what you would hope to learn from such failures. Additionally, they'll be curious what efforts you'll attempt to make to remedy the situation.
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Ask questions and process out loud your reaction, response to the situation, and what actions you would take. Discuss your work ethic and standard for checking your work. Offer how this would personally impact you, that of learning your work quality did not meet your expectations. Share how you handle such setbacks and what you would do to avoid repeating them.
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I would talk to my boss first to apologize for what happened and to ask for tips and guidance on how to improve so this doesn't happen again. I would see the possibility of extending the deadline so that I could redo the report and this time follow the standards to meet the boss's expectations.
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Great! Is there an example you can include here of a time when you went through a similar situation and successfully handled it?
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