Not just does everyone make mistakes and errors – when those mistakes happen during a presentation, they also become suddenly memorable. Everyone makes mistakes and errors, but what can you learn from them?
Behavioral Interview Query: Discuss us through a period when you felt your presentation qualities let you down and what did you learn from that experience?
Any time you are inquired to say something negative about yourself in reaction to a behavioral interview query, it isn’t the negative statement that is significant. It is how you followed up on it. Consider back to a presentation mistake (we have all had them), and then discuss about what you did after that to make certain that mistake did not repeat.
Sample Answer
“I completed a presentation on a national sales promotion for 1 primary account and it went very smooth and well, leading to a great increase in future product orders. I was inquired to do the exact similar presentation a week later for another primary account in a nearby city.
The 1st presentation went so good, that I did not consider I required preparing anything extra for the next one. I arrived feeling very self assured that I had everything covered but then I was inquired few extra queries that I was not prepared for. If I had spent more time considering about that specific account and preparing the presentation merely for them instead of approaching it generically, I would not have faltered.
That experience was a memorable that how significant it is to treat each presentation like it is the only one, preparing particular notes, having a concept of what questions may arise and so on. Since that day, I access every presentation as if it is the mere one even when the presentation is necessarily the same; I learned that it has to be something that you treat like it is the 1st time you have ever presented on the topic.”
There was an error, and you learned something. That is all you actually require to show with this kind of answer. As long as you are clear with your reaction, you will make certain the employer understands that you are someone that learns and attempts to do better