Pick a professional achievement even if they don’t specifically ask for one. If you just graduated and your accomplishment was in an internship or in a university class, what did you learn, what challenges did you overcome, and how did this help you get to where you are today? 2. How did it help you? How did it help your team or your employer at the time? Show exactly what you achieved and why it was a significant accomplishment. Then get specific and talk about RESULTS. If your best, most impressive accomplishment is five years ago, you can still use it! My point is that if you’re debating between a few options of stories to share, you should always choose more recent and more relevant to the job you’ve applied for whenever possible.Īnd be sure to choose something that had a big overall impact on your career. Pick something that’s as recent as possible, and somewhat relevant to this job or your career. We’re going to start out by looking at what type of achievement you should share. Let’s get started… How to Choose Your Greatest Achievement for Interviews: In this article, I’m going to show you how to answer, “what is your greatest achievement?” with example answers, mistakes to avoid, and more.
As Ball famously said: "I'd rather regret the things I've done than the things I haven't done.Employers LOVE to ask questions about your greatest professional achievement or accomplishment… and they expect a detailed example or story! So you need to be ready. What I am is brave." And you'll love yourself more for trying too. Case in point, Ball's assertion that: "I'm not funny. Luck to me is something else: hard work, and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Life is twice as interesting with a partner in crime. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." Don't underestimate a pretty face. First things first: "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. But if I did, I'd always have to leave room at the end to write "dash Lucille Ball." The TV legend and Hollywood trailblazer would have been 102 today-and though it's been decades since she passed on, her words and example are still totally current. I am not the type to lipstick-scrawl affirmations on the bathroom mirror. "Just as she was leaving, she said, 'Kid, if you ever need me for anything, give me a call.'" Well, it turns out, a few years later, "She called me 'kid' because she was 22 years older than I," recalled Burnett. Burnett remembered the first time they met backstage at Burnett's off-Broadway show, Once Upon a Mattress, when she peeked out of the curtains and noticed "this orange-red hair in the second row." It was Lucille Ball, of course, and Ball ended up coming back to Burnett's dressing room after the show and chatting for 25 minutes. Whether it was her thoughts on female comediennes ("We used to be pigeonholed, but there are more and more women comedians who are being accepted.") or today's version of comedy (not everything has to be edgy-belly laughs are just as funny), it was her story about her old friend Lucille Ball that melted everyone's hearts.
The only actor to receive a standing ovation in the press room, the 82-year-old actress and comedian charmed the Scarlett O'Hara curtains off of everyone hanging on to her every word and story. Life Achievement recipient Carol Burnett was the life of the SAG Awards last night.