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What has been your Biggest Career Success?
Interview Skills: Idea #5
What has been the biggest accomplishment of your career?
This should be an easy answer. A slam dunk. A clear boundary.
But there is also a very easy and big mistake that most make when tackling this one.
Ideally, this question is exactly what you need in that interview. A chance to impress them. You can now tell them about your best success story; a story that positions you in the perfect light and tells them just what you would like them to know.
The mistake that people make is that they score the run but they miss out on an opportunity to double the score.
It’s not enough to just tell them about what your success was. But the story really smashes it when you tell them why.
You could just say — “I have exceeded my sales target for the past two consecutive years.”
Or you could explain this better — “I have exceeded my sales target by over 5% for the past two consecutive years, even though there was no new product launch and there was a loss of a major account nationally.”
You could just say — “I developed a process innovation that saves the company more than 2 Mn$ annually.”
