Honestly! The questions asked on an interview want to know how you think, how you respond to situations, and whether you would be a good fit for their company. They are not interested in how some anonymous person on the internet would answer this question.
Generally speaking, if I'm going to miss a deadline, I tell my boss before hand. He then either extends the deadline or throws more assets at the problem to meet the deadline.
A good answer for this question would include a non-crucial deadline (perhaps providing feedback to an internal committee or completing your personal filing) in the name of customer service.
For example, "I was unable to meet my personal deadline of getting all of my reports filed by month-end because one of my customers had a critical issue I spent lots of time rectifying." Or, "Always one to take on extra duties, I volunteered to serve on my company's sports team committee. We were all supposed to bring ideas to the next meeting, but my teammate was out sick for the entire week and I covered her duties to ensure the customer received the same level of service they deserved."
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No. No units went into Iraq until after January of 1991, when Iraq failed to meet the UN mandated deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait. 2/319 FA (Abn) did serve in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, however.
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Wasn't what you expected... Wasn't as good as you expected... Wasn't what you hoped... Not what you thought you were getting... Not what you wanted... Not what you were looking for.......
I believe that the Taino people were either executed or mutilated if they failed to meet the quota of the gold.
Tell us about a time when you failed to meet a deadline. What were the repercussions?
A fail; to meet a deadline is ridculous. If you have something to do and you have a deadline, you need to get it done
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It simply means that there was a deadline for something to be done, i.e., payments, reports, a plan, dinner, anything that is supposed to be concluded by a particular target time. If you don't have whatever done by the target time, you have "failed to meet a deadline"
A situation when I was struggling to meet an important deadline was when I had projects due for school, and the situation would come about when I would continually put them off until the last minute. In order to meet the deadline, I would have to put a lot of work into it near the deadline, and in most cases I was successful.
I missed a deadline on a project due to underestimating the time needed for a complex task. The repercussions included disappointing my team members and the project being delayed. I communicated openly about the mistake, took responsibility, and worked to rectify the situation by reorganizing tasks and creating a new timeline.
It completely depends on what the deadline was for. If it was the deadline for getting on an airplane, you can't take the flight. If it's a deadline for applying for a job, you won't get the job. In general, you can figure that the repercussion of not meeting any deadline is that you won't have that particular opportunity now, and sometimes it's worse. If you fail to meet a deadline set by a government agency (such as the IRS), you could face very serious consequences. If you fail to meet a deadline for a court case, you could lose the case and face financial hardship or jail.
Yes, "failed" can be a verb. It is the past tense of the verb "fail," which means to be unsuccessful in achieving a goal or to not meet expectations.
In answering this question you need to emphasize that you rarely miss a deadline. You need to provide examples of extreme circumstances, such as an emergency. You need to emphasize that it places a burden on others and results in the inability to meet team goals.
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A time when a person does not meet a company's expectations could be when they failed to complete a project on time. If a person does not meet a company's expectations they can suggest ways to meet those expectations in the future. Take a negative experience and turn it in to a positive learning experience.
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