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Tell me a time when you missed a deadline

Tell me a time when you missed a deadline

We often run multiple projects with multiple deadlines. Missing a crucial deadline is bad for business and it impacts the business as well our performance.
We need to find innovative ways to make up any time loss and avoid the disaster.
Tell about a project, the circumstances and how you kept the internal stakeholders informed. Tell about the actions you initiated to mitigate the risk.
Do's
• Show how you monitor the project
• How you kept your stakeholders and the boss informed
• Tell about the actions you took to mitigate
• Share the lessons learnt
Don'ts
• No, I am perfect and i never miss any deadline
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