Interview Question: Tell me about a time you failed.

What the interviewer is really asking:

Can you recognize weakness in yourself? Can you overcome failures and learn from them?

How to answer:

I love this so much more than the “What is your biggest weakness?” question because it provides so much more insight. The interviewer is getting the same information, but they are asking the question in a way that people can give an honest response without bashing themselves. It also is universal. Everybody has failed at something.

Be careful when you’re answering this question, because you don’t want to look like the sole reason for the failure; however, even if you are, highlight how you learned something from the experience. You want to make it sound like you are able to take failures and stop the same thing from happening again. Tell a story. Interviews are a great place for stories. Emphasize what you learned from the experience and talk about how you'd prevent the same failure from happening again. Take what happened and put a positive spin on it.

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