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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
This question gives you a chance to show your ability to overcome adversity and handle yourself with integrity during a time of failure. Your goal will be to prove that you can cope with failure in a productive way that leads to making the situation right and learning lessons for the future. Think of a situation where you can highlight both of these things, and don't hesitate to tell your interviewer the reasons the failure occurred. Your interview fully understands that you are a human that makes mistakes, and as long as you learned from the failure, you will be in great standing with them.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"A couple of years ago, my manager asked me to consider a promotion to a role as a supervisor for our department. I was hesitant at first because I didn't have experience as a supervisor. My manager told me I had the skills necessary to do so. I accepted the offer, and after three months, I realized that the position wasn't for me. I became close friends with a lot of the people I was now supervising, and that made the role difficult. I didn't hesitate to tell my manager that I wasn't cut out for the role, and we worked on a plan to transition back to my former role. Looking back on the situation, I learned a lot about myself and who I was as a worker."

Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"I was informed that we were losing one of our biggest clients to a local competitor. The client was unhappy with our customer service and overall pricing. Being responsible for the customer service for our customers, I felt responsible for losing this client and had to break the news to our leadership team. Right away, our Sales Manager contacted the client to ask why they were no longer utilizing our services. I worked through a new customer service policy for my team to follow moving forward."

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