Quintessential Careers Press:
The Quintessential Guide to Behavioral Interviewing
Chapter 5: Sample Behavioral Questions and Responses
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Tell me about a time when you failed to meet a deadline. What things did you fail to do? What were the repercussions? What did you learn?
I recently failed to meet a deadline in my communications course with a project I had to do on the Internet. I did not meet the deadline because I underestimated the amount of time the assignment would take me to complete. Therefore, the assignment was incomplete when I turned it in. As a result I lost points on my final grade. I learned the importance of examining tasks more carefully so I can better estimate the amount of time required to complete them. I also learned to build some flex time into projects so that if my estimates are wrong, I'll still have time to complete the tasks.
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