How do you define success?
I've worked alongside hiring managers on recruitment efforts throughout my career, and most are keen on ensuring new staff they hire have a high sense of achievement and success. If you take the time to read through Northrop Grumman's core values before your interview, you'll quickly see that their success is defined by innovation, problem-solving, and delivering high-quality results. Your interviewer would like to hear that one of these values is how you define success in your work.
"I define success by my ability to reach the goals set for me. On a personal level, those goals are the things I wish to achieve in my life. On a work level, they are the targets set out for me and the professional development I seek. If you were to contact my references following this interview, they wouldn't hesitate to talk about my ability to hit my goals and help Northrop Grumman accomplish theirs."
"Success is the completion of any task you set out to do or any goal you set for yourself. Success receives interpretation in many different ways, but I know I have been successful when I feel that relief and contentment only accomplishment can bring."
Before your interview with Northrop Grumman, consider what success means to you. Tell the interviewer how you see progress, and tie your answer into the success you plan to bring to work at Northrop Grumman, should you be offered the role.
"As a new graduate, I will define success as getting onboarded and up and running on the job here at Northrop Grumman in short order. Part of that success will also entail becoming acclimated to the culture and gaining the trust and respect of my team from day one. From there, I'm confident in the skills I would bring for success on the job."
Community answers are written by other candidates practicing this set. Reading how others frame the same question is one of the fastest ways to sharpen your own.
Anonymous Answer
Success is when the outcome of an action is sufficiently close to a desirable goal, timely, and the cost of the action is significantly less than its benefit.
Kristine's Feedback
Good answer. Try using the interviewer's words in your response. For example, you could start your response by saying, "I define success as when"" The final part of your answer, "the cost of the action is significantly less than its benefit" may cause some confusion, so try rewording that part.
