

I hope that helps provide a framework -if not, disregard it. Try to emphasize the process you went through when you faced a challenge and needed to overcome it and particularly if you worked with others. If I were evaluating your answers I would be able to detect some of those elements but they could be stronger. I had applicants have great answers from a wide variety of experiences (sports, jobs, mentoring, etc) but they all were able to demonstrate introspection, ownership, and resolve in addressing it and moving forward. There was less emphasis in our matrix for the type of challenge. What I looked for in an answer for this question was evidence that the candidate went through a process of introspection and found a way to move forward to fix a problem, particularly when those problems involved or impacted others.
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My prior professional experience includes interviewing candidates for a reputable service organization and I asked this question in every interview. Long story short I fixed my notes in the end and made way better notes for the doctor. And then one day I had finals so a coworker filled in my shift and saw some of my previous notes- and said that they need work and that he would supervise my shift.
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It turns out, I was doing certain types of notes wrong ( basically, the A/P portion of surgical notes, I had to describe the full details of the procedure in the doctor's note, but I only did a brief summary, thinking that more than that would be wordy/excessive. When I started scribing for the general surgeon I scribe for, I went through floor training like everyone else, and then I was on my own. I've gotten over that by staying really active and making to-do lists with my schoolwork.Īs for the " failure" essay, I have a lot that are way too personal/vague/weird/strictly academic to discuss in an interview setting, but I'm willing to discuss this minor example from work. When I was 16 I started having stress symptoms for the first, really awful headaches all the time and difficulty focusing on schoolwork. When I was a freshman in HS I struggled pretty badly with making friends and I was super isolated and lonely, and I overcame that challenge by joining clubs my tenth-grade year and slowly making friends. I know having too " scripted" of an answer isn't doable but I want an outline for my answer, and I am willing to " go off script" but I need a place to start. I'm drafting " sample" answers to some of the major interview questions, including " Describe a challenge you faced and the steps you took to overcome it".
