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What is your greatest career-related failure, and what did you learn from it?
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Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
The interviewer is looking for an inspector who can admit they have experienced failure in their career and learned something from that experience. Describe a career-related failure, and turn it into a positive experience with the lessons that you learned. Explain how that failure changed your perspective and how it improved you as a person.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
"My greatest career-related failure was not passing a fire technology course the first time I took it. I had become complacent and thought my experience as a firefighter would guarantee that I would pass the course. I did not study as hard as I should have, and I failed. I learned that I should never become complacent in a profession and that I need to be constantly learning. I studied very hard before retaking the course, and I received a 98% grade. That was the last course I needed to pass before receiving my associate's degree."
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