Celebrating Failure

This semester I failed at acquiring a second interview with target. This starts with a success which makes the failure even harder to swallow but it also motivated me to be better and find my faults. After Career Showcase I was asked to do an interview with target for an internship spot this summer. I felt very confident and believed I did well in the interview, but was informed that I would not be asked back for another interview. Even though this hurt it also motivated me to try to recognize where I struggled in the interview and improve on this. It also made me think to the future because I want to do so well that I can look back and say that target missed a huge opportunity to have me in their organization.


I think failure is something that is very polarizing for people because you either take it as a challenge to better yourself or you let it defeat you and actually regress because of failure. This is something that gives everyone a chance to evolve. I used to let defeat pull me down and would regress and just pity myself when I failed. I realized over time that other people were using their failures to better themselves and therefore had a head start on me in many aspects of life. This drove me to change my mindset and start to also use my failures to strengthen the areas that I failed in.

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  1. UnknownDecember 3, 2017 at 4:10 PM

    I believe it's important to stay positive after experiencing failure like you demonstrated. And I am positive that being motivated and learning from what went wrong in your interview will help you land a job in the future! In the face of failure, I also felt defeated but I'm trying to learn from this assignment to change my mindset also.

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  2. UnknownDecember 3, 2017 at 5:37 PM

    I like to hear that you took this failure to better yourself. I took my failures from interviews and went to the CRC and practiced interview techniques over and over until I was satisfied that my next interview would be better and lead to success. You are definitely driven and it's good that you learned early in life that you can't let failure get you down and started using it to better yourself.

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  3. UnknownDecember 3, 2017 at 7:16 PM

    Great job on your post, you perfectly described a situation where you failed, and I liked that you were able to see it as an opportunity to better yourself. I also agree with your view on failure that it is polarizing for people. Failure is either going to make you worse or better as a person. Great job on this assignment.

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  4. Ellliot LopatukhinDecember 3, 2017 at 10:37 PM

    I believe that this was a very strong blog post. Everyone will fail in some aspects of life, it is inevitable. I believe how you handle the failure shows who you are as a person. I agree with your evaluation of failure on how there are two ways to handle a failure. The first type of person learns from their mistakes, that way they can be more successful in the future, and the second type of person basks in their failure and then fails to use it as a learning experience. I believe that you handled your failure with the target interview in very mature way which is demonstrative of the qualities that type one people have; the type of person who uses their failure as a learning experience and evolves from it.

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