Talk about a time that you made a mistake in your career and what steps you took to correct the mistake?

Think about a time when you made a mistake at work. Talk about any steps you took to correct the error and took ownership of your mistake. Discuss what you learned from the mistake and how you made sure to not make the same error moving forward.

"Very early on in my career, I accidentally mixed up two samples. I continued with my testing as usual and the results were way off. The entire team spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the results were so far off from what we expected and it took a lot of time. I ended up realizing it a day or two later when I ended up getting conflicting results from another batch of tests. The mistake caused a lot of time to be wasted and ended up resulting in rework. I was so hard on myself about it for a while. I was able to learn from my mistake and I always label and keep my samples separated now."