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Question 27 of 30
What does greatness, and success, mean to you?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
This question is a discovery-based inquiry, genuinely focused on how you think versus what you do. Go with your initial instinct when it comes to how you define success and greatness. There is no right or wrong answer, here.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"To me, greatness and success means achieving the goals that you set for yourself. I know the sense of accomplishment when I can make that work, and it makes me feel like I am on top of the world."
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"To me, greatness is being genuine and kind to others. Success is the feeling of accomplishment that comes from a job well done."
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"To me, success comes when you accomplish a goal, and that needs to be something specific that you have your eyes set on. I often encourage my team to set specific goals for themselves. Second, greatness ties into that because without believing that you are great, you will not likely succeed and meet your goals!"
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"To me, greatness is having an excellent reputation and being someone of integrity. Success comes when you achieve your goals."
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I feel a sense of greatness and success when I have a specific goal in mind, create a detailed plan, and achieve that plan. What feels greater than that?"
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"Greatness, to me, means achieving something big. Going over and above the usual goals and hitting a major milestone. Success ties into that, more as a feeling of accomplishment."
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"I teach my students that greatness and feelings of success come from setting lofty goals, and working hard to achieve them."
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Greatness and success are correlated with each other. Success can't be achieved without greatness. I think a willingness to help is greatness, and it is important to have success.
Rachelle's Feedback
Very good! Your answer is thoughtful and well expressed.
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I feel a sense of greatness and success when I achieved the goal, I had a detailed plan.
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I personalized your response a bit more. See below.
I believe greatness and success can be felt and fostered when detailed plans are created and implemented. I am a goal-driven person, so functioning at the highest level takes a great deal of planning and meticulous execution. I equate success with greatness in how that success is accomplished. In order to foster success, and to feel it, you have to get everyone on the same page with the vision, and give them a sense of ownership for their part in it, and make sure they know their piece of the puzzle has to fit perfectly with all the other pieces of the team. When the puzzle is assembled and the big picture looks better than you thought it would, that success combined with enthusiasm qualifies as greatness, in my humble opinion.
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