This question assesses your work ethic and career goals while providing insights into your personality. The assessment vendor and recruiter will also gauge your level of honesty with how you present your answers. Exaggerating or telling the interviewers what you think they want to hear will come across as disingenuous and, more often than not, can be spotted from a mile away.

Some non-verbal cues the assessment vendor will use to evaluate your honesty are gaze avoidance, the direction of your eyes, fidgeting, restless foot, and leg movements, frequent body posture changes, grooming behaviors such as playing with hair or pressing your fingers to lips, stroking your chin, covering your mouth or your eyes, and excessive fidgeting. Verbal cues they'll analyze to identify if you're exaggerating or not being completely honest include repeating a question before answering, speaking in sentence fragments, displaying a change in speech pattern, irregular speech, and rising and falling tone.

Remember, when your words don't match your gestures, it's your gestures that will be seen as the truth. So maintain eye contact and confident body language, be comfortable, and speak from the heart. Steady on. Effectively communicating how you weigh success in your interview could lead to being placed in a position more suited to your personality and skills. Break down what success means to you across all fronts; short-term goals, long-term goals, and the big picture.