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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.
Your answer will offer a glimpse of your outlook and attitude and help the interviewer evaluate how you relate to those in positions of authority. How you frame your answer will indicate whether you're defensive or proactive and what you learned from that experience.

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.
Consider your example before offering it. Be humble. The key is to present yourself as calm and professional and strive to improve your performance by learning and growing from your experiences on the job. Offering examples where you felt victimized, even when justified, may not present itself in the same context you're trying to relay. Your answer should communicate how well you get along with others. Steer clear of examples where you felt a supervisor was victimizing you or singling you out. Even if a supervisor's actions were misguided or inappropriate, this is not the goal of the question.

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.
"I received a mediocre review early in my career. I'd been working my tail off and going above and beyond. When I received my review, every category fell into the 'meets expectations' category, and I did not receive the score I felt I deserved. I then broke down all the things I'd done, but my boss said no one knew and labeled me a stealth worker. He said I needed to make others aware of my accomplishments and that perception is reality. So I started keeping a journal in my pocket where I detailed all the ways I was going above and beyond. I composed a weekly report of my accomplishments to my boss, and when the next review came, all of my scores fell in the always going above and beyond category. My boss kept complimenting me on how far I've come along and how incredibly my performance improved. I told them the only thing that changed was how I documented my accomplishments and made them aware of them, to which they replied that perception is reality. I get that now."

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