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Question 19 of 25
Talk to me about a disappointment you experienced and how you handled it.
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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.
In most interviews, it is common to be asked similarly phrased questions. These are designed to test one's attention to detail and to assess the originality of your answers, which in turn could prove insightful to your level of experience. To draw the distinction, a hardship is often something that happens outwardly, whereas disappointment is something inward. The similarity between asking about your hardships and disappointments pertains to how you recover from such experiences. So, even though the prep time is limited, make sure you pause and take time to understand each question being asked before answering it. This is why it is useful to warm up beforehand and take advantage of the practice questions if you can. Even though the practice questions may or may not be related to your real assessment questions, and the preparation and response time between questions may also vary, it will help prepare you and enable you to think more quickly on your feet.
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 practice questions in Kira allow you to get familiar with the platform and to double-check that your device is set up properly. However, there are some key differences between practice and real assessment questions to be aware of. During the practice, you can complete your questions as many times as you'd like. During the real assessment, you only have one chance per question. During the practice, you can replay your responses to understand how you're presenting yourself. During the real assessment, you cannot play back your responses. Only your responses to the real assessment questions are evaluated. No one has access to anything you recorded during your practice (except you!)"
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 had signed up for an advanced class because I really admired the instructor and their approach to teaching. But, I hadn't realized that the school hadn't gotten around to updating the program to include the new instructor who was taking that class over. The instructor I admired transferred to another school in the district and I was pretty disappointed by this. Yet, I took the class anyway and found this instructor to be pretty dynamic and engaging. It was still a different experience than I imagined, but I never regretted taking the class."
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