Pfizer Internship Mock Interview
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Talk about the biggest disappointment you had to face up to this point in your life. What did you learn from that situation that you can bring to the Pfizer internship program?
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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.
As an intern at Pfizer, you will be trusted to work on impactful initiatives and will be given a lot of freedom compared to most internships. With this responsibility may come some failures and your interviewer is looking to evaluate how you handle disappointment and what you learn from it. It will also assess how you take ownership of your own actions, inactions, limitations, self-awareness, as well as your attitude towards life.
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.
Try to offer examples where the circumstances of the disappointment were beyond your control. Discuss the situation that you faced and how you moved forward with action and communication to help make the situation better. In the end, stay positive and talk about it as a great learning experience that can help you be successful as part of the Pfizer internship program.
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.
"During my undergraduate program, I received a very poor grade on a final project for a class that I was extremely disappointed with. In hopes to finish my program in under four years, I packed a couple of semesters very full of credits and I became very overwhelmed that last semester with competing projects, assignments, and priorities and I just wasn't able to devote enough time to it. I took full responsibility and had a very candid conversation with my professor following the grade. From that situation, I learned that I am only one person and can only take on so much myself at one time. Now, if I ever need to put out a call for help, I don't hesitate to do so."
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