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"Tell us about a time when you made a mistake"

This question tripped me up, nearly killed me on one of my earlier interviews. Actually probably does kill my chances. I'm human, And I know I have made mistakes in my professional and personal life. But because I have so many cross checks in place I don't have anything substantial that I can share with them. Management hasn't had to run around and freak out on me about anything major in my career. And in 12 years of Real Estate, not only did I have cross checks in place but thankfully I had brokers that would oversee my transactions. So this is the one I struggle with the most. That being said. I did get asked this question on my most recent interview, I was able to offer a weak example about transposing numbers on a software install patch, and I said the lesson I learned from that was to never manually input again and just cut and paste moving forward. They seemed to accept it. And thankfully I just wrapped up accepting the job this past Monday. ❤️🙏🏻

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