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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.
The position of a page at NBCUniversal is high pressure and competitive with the potential for great rewards. The interviewer hopes to ascertain whether you take ownership of your mistakes and setbacks and learn from them or deflect blame, repeating the same errors, making you difficult to work with.

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.
Using the star method, offer an example relevant to the position. Start by describing the situation, then the task that wasn't executed as hoped, the actions you took, and the result. Break down the positive takeaways from the situation and the measures you took to set yourself up for success moving forward.

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.
As they say on their website, 'Here you can develop and grow' and take 'ownership of your experience, including learning from mistakes and asking questions.' Keep these in mind when formulating your answer.

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.
"Early in my internship at CNN, I was asked by our department head to get coffees for a meeting in a couple of hours. After embarking on this errand, Anderson Cooper introduced himself, and we had a great, albeit brief, conversation. He then asked me for a favor in another department where I met several other high-profile figureheads. This was an incredible moment for me, and I forgot about the coffees for the meeting. It was a rocky start to my internship.
The next day, I knew there was another meeting. When I showed up to work, I came with coffee and pastries in tow. That more than made up for it. Later that day, I created a rough draft for my task-keeping systems, which I still use to this day. I don't allow myself to get star-struck anymore, nor do I lose track like I did that day. Nothing gets by me now."

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