Kira Talent Mock Interview

Master 25 Kira Talent interview questions covering video assessments, AI evaluation, and candidate experience.

Question 5 of 25

Tell us about a time when you overcame a difficult challenge.

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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.

Throughout your academic pursuits, and in your professional life, you'll face unique challenges, just as you have in the past. So, this question is aimed at how you navigate such challenges, how adaptable you are, and whether you are positive and decisive. How you answer could offer insights into how resourceful you are, and whether you approach such situations with outside-of-the-box thinking. Your answer might also prove informative regarding how innovative and collaborative you are. Kira suggests, that by using their platform, their clients will more successfully "enroll a more employable cohort." When scoring your answer, they'll also evaluate how effectively you articulate your answer, and whether you had an "intended personal impact in a group setting."

Kevin Downey

"I was on the yearbook committee at school and had a concept for the year that I really felt proud of, and kept running with it. I'd put a great deal of time and energy into conceptualizing the whole thing. Quite a lot of work. But I made the mistake of not running it by my teacher first, and when I got around to sharing it with them, they told me it was the same concept from about ten years ago, and our principal felt very strongly about not repeating previous themes, even remotely. So, I had to scrap all the work I'd done and was all out of ideas. But mostly, I was emotionally attached to the concept, and that made it particularly hard. But, I recovered and learned to ask more questions and be more transparent with my ideas and my work so that I wouldn't repeat that mistake ever again. When I did come up with another concept it went over well, and everyone liked it, but I wasn't as invested in it. But I put my all into it anyways, and it was a success."

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25Kira Talent Interview Questions & Answers

Career Goals

1.Why do you want to attend our program?

Behavioral

2.With regards to gifts and subsidies, what, if anything, do you feel is acceptable for a professional to accept? What guidelines should be put around such gifts, and why?

Problem Solving

3.Describe a situation where you didn’t have all of the information at the time and had to make a decision. What did you do?

Accomplishment

4.Tell us about yourself.

Experience

5.Tell us about a time when you overcame a difficult challenge.

Leadership

6.In your opinion what makes a good leader, and why?

Problem Solving

7.Tell me about a recent time when you had to ask for help with something. Who did you ask, and how were they able to help you?

8.Have you ever received criticism that you initially didn't agree with? Why? Did you change your perspective?

Behavioral

9.Are you an early riser or a night owl? Why?

Behavioral

10.Tell me about your favorite home cooked meal.

11.Please tell me about a time you experienced a hardship. How did you react and what were some of the outcomes?

Conflict

12.Describe a time when you disagreed with, or had a conflict with someone. What happened? How did you address it? What was the outcome?

Communication

13.Describe a time when you had to communicate a message to multiple groups.

Leadership

14.Tell us about a time you motivated a disinterested team member.

Behavioral

15.What is a positive attribute or quality your friends, professors, or peers would say you have?

Experience

16.Looking back over your life, what’s one thing you would’ve changed?

Teamwork

17.What do you do when someone comes to you with a problem?

Communication

18.What is one thing you'd like the admissions committee to know about you?

19.Talk to me about a disappointment you experienced and how you handled it.

Career Goals

20.What motivated you to pursue your goals?

Performance Based

21.Name a time that you were not happy with your performance. What did you do to address it?

Diversity

22.What is a situation in which you had to work with someone who had a very different perspective or way of solving problems than you? How did you approach it while preserving your relationship with them?

Stress

23.When something is more challenging than you expected, how do you go about not letting it impede your success?

24.Tell us about a time you failed at an important goal and what you learned as a result.

Performance Based

Kira Talent Mock Interview

Tell us about a time when you overcame a difficult challenge.

25Kira Talent Interview Questions & Answers

1.Why do you want to attend our program?

2.With regards to gifts and subsidies, what, if anything, do you feel is acceptable for a professional to accept? What guidelines should be put around such gifts, and why?

3.Describe a situation where you didn’t have all of the information at the time and had to make a decision. What did you do?

4.Tell us about yourself.

5.Tell us about a time when you overcame a difficult challenge.

6.In your opinion what makes a good leader, and why?

7.Tell me about a recent time when you had to ask for help with something. Who did you ask, and how were they able to help you?

8.Have you ever received criticism that you initially didn't agree with? Why? Did you change your perspective?

9.Are you an early riser or a night owl? Why?

10.Tell me about your favorite home cooked meal.

11.Please tell me about a time you experienced a hardship. How did you react and what were some of the outcomes?

12.Describe a time when you disagreed with, or had a conflict with someone. What happened? How did you address it? What was the outcome?

13.Describe a time when you had to communicate a message to multiple groups.

14.Tell us about a time you motivated a disinterested team member.

15.What is a positive attribute or quality your friends, professors, or peers would say you have?

16.Looking back over your life, what’s one thing you would’ve changed?

17.What do you do when someone comes to you with a problem?

18.What is one thing you'd like the admissions committee to know about you?

19.Talk to me about a disappointment you experienced and how you handled it.

20.What motivated you to pursue your goals?

21.Name a time that you were not happy with your performance. What did you do to address it?

22.What is a situation in which you had to work with someone who had a very different perspective or way of solving problems than you? How did you approach it while preserving your relationship with them?

23.When something is more challenging than you expected, how do you go about not letting it impede your success?

24.Tell us about a time you failed at an important goal and what you learned as a result.

25.Tell us about a time you went above and beyond academically.