Mary Frederick answered
To talk about your biggest failure in an interview you first must decide, if and when, you have experienced such a failure. Maybe you have never experienced anything you would call a big failure. Depending upon your age, and life experiences, not being aware of a big failure, may be the truth for you. If, this is the case then you need to state this in your interview.
When children grow up in a loving and caring family, a family that is supportive, a family, in which everyone helps everyone else to achieve their goals, big failures do not always happen to them. Even in homes where you are put down for failures this does not mean you are a failure. Failures should be treated as obstacles to overcome not as permanent reminders, to keep you feeling bad about yourself.
If you have never experienced a big failure, just answer this way. I really have never experienced what I would call a big failure. I try to deal with mistakes as learning experiences. If, I fail to reach a goal, I try harder the next time. I am sure I have failed at times, but I do not spend time fretting over these things. I try to focus on doing my best each day, and some days I succeed and some days I do not, but to me it is the effort which counts.
Now, if in fact you have experienced something you believe was a big failure. First state, that while you are aware what happened was a mistake, you learned from the mistake, and that is past history. Today, my focus is looking forward, not backward. I can tell you about my mistake, but I would rather talk about the successes in my life, and who I am at this moment and who I hope to become. I have no problem admitting mistakes, I would be ashamed of my failures, only if, I did not have the intelligence to move beyond them, and strive for higher goals.
When children grow up in a loving and caring family, a family that is supportive, a family, in which everyone helps everyone else to achieve their goals, big failures do not always happen to them. Even in homes where you are put down for failures this does not mean you are a failure. Failures should be treated as obstacles to overcome not as permanent reminders, to keep you feeling bad about yourself.
If you have never experienced a big failure, just answer this way. I really have never experienced what I would call a big failure. I try to deal with mistakes as learning experiences. If, I fail to reach a goal, I try harder the next time. I am sure I have failed at times, but I do not spend time fretting over these things. I try to focus on doing my best each day, and some days I succeed and some days I do not, but to me it is the effort which counts.
Now, if in fact you have experienced something you believe was a big failure. First state, that while you are aware what happened was a mistake, you learned from the mistake, and that is past history. Today, my focus is looking forward, not backward. I can tell you about my mistake, but I would rather talk about the successes in my life, and who I am at this moment and who I hope to become. I have no problem admitting mistakes, I would be ashamed of my failures, only if, I did not have the intelligence to move beyond them, and strive for higher goals.
