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Written by CommonInterview


Main point is to be humble. The interviewer wants to know about a non-success story.

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Sometimes the solutions are where you least expect them... like right in front of your nose! I once had a student-employee who was assigned a task that I thought would be a good fit. They were assisting me with a Department of Agriculture food grant, and I figured that this was a good assignment because they had worked for years with the university’s food service. The employee had a background with food, but had not had a positive overall experience with the school’s food service division. The assignment, as a result, was unpleasant and mundane. I thought that the solution was to bite the bullet and just ‘slog’ through. The employee had developed a working relationship with a younger student-employee in the office, who was eager to learn all they could from new and ‘more experienced’ co-worker. By putting the dissatisfied student in more of a leadership role, many of the their tasks could have been eagerly assigned (and accepted) by the younger student... who would vew the experience as a learning opportunity. The obvious solution involved utilizing personal chemistry in a professional environment.


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