"Tell me about a time you failed." You might be answering this interview question wrong. A Career Coach named Cara gave some insight about this questions and revealed, quote, “The recruiter wants to hear a true failure. Not a success veiled as a failure.”
Cara explains that recruiters want to know three things about a candidate:
- Your ability to take responsibility for mistakes vs blaming others/ the system
- Your resilience to overcome obstacles and continue to problem solve
- Your self awareness. Your ability to learn and grow from mistakes
She goes on to explain the best way to answer this question and says to use the SOAR format.
- Situation - clearly describe the situation you were confronted with
- Obstacle - what the obstacles were
- Action - how you acted
- Result - what the final result was
Source: YourTango