Question: Describe your greatest achievement outside of work or career.

Alternative Question Phrasing:

What is your greatest personal achievement?

Follow-up questions:

What did you do to achieve this?
Was it worth it?
What did you learn form this?
What motivated you to do this?
Did all this distract you from your main career or work?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Traditional

Other Factors:

Candidate Preparedness,Motivation/Ambition/Aspiration,Personal Improvement (Growth),Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit,Personality-Team Fit,Rapport Building Question,Self-Awareness

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Achievement/Effort (Action/Result Orientation),Persistence/Perseverance

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

Look for their motivations and see how driven a person the interviewee is.

Red Flags to Watch For:

Not having a achievement outside of work is not necessarily a red flag. It could be that the interviewee chooses to spend most of their efforts in their job.

Sample Answer:

N/A

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