Kira Talent Mock Interview

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

Question 23 of 25

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

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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.

This question is basically asking how effectively you perform in high-pressure, stressful situations. How you answer should inform them of whether you are able to manage your stress, think quickly on your feet, and respond situationally rather than emotionally. So, when answering this question, you want to exhibit that you are able to adapt and respond decisively without experiencing task paralysis.

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Depending on the institution you are applying to, stress-based behavioral questions such as these may be phrased in a manner that more often correlate to the specific situations you'll likely face in that program. So, even though a question pertains to a particular situation in that program, or to your field of study, the focus of the question will be the same. For example, here is an account from an applicant who completed a Kira Assessment for a Physical Therapy program they were trying to enter. "My interview questions were very different from the practice questions. The practice questions seemed pretty generic admission-like questions. My actual interview questions were much more PT related and seemed to test my thinking process in tough/stressful situations as a future PT."

Kevin Downey

"Stuff comes up all the time that either presents an obstacle or detour, or just doesn't go the way you hoped. But that's just life. So, even I am disappointed by things not being easy, I adapt and make due. What else is there to do but adapt and keep moving? As my mom would say, just keep at it. So that's what I do until it's done. I just keep at it, no matter how tough the going gets."

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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

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

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.