Guide to Answer-What is the Accomplishment You Are Most Proud of?

Hey, I am back with what I promised in my previous post. I was telling the world how to answer the interview question- What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?

If you are new to this blog site please read my previous post first. Just look at the right under the title Recent Posts and choose the title- What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Here is the step by step guide to best answer the question regarding you accomplishment.


Choose the your most recent accomplishment. You will be very excited and your facial expression will be most impressive while talking about something that took place recently. This will also make your accomplishment more realistic to take into account by the interviewer.

Make up your mind to match the perfect relevancy to the position you have applied for. This means you will not be talking about how smart you were in the last basketball tournament while you are getting interviewed for a position of an accountant.

Choose a pair of fresh jobs done based on the job description and the job specification available. If you are null about the job take a step to call the organization or arrange a meet to someone in there. More information means more power. Remember information is the strongest weapon in this era.

Be honest. Do not exaggerate your achievement. Never tell a lie. If you are weak at something, tell them how hard you are trying to become smarter.

Link your accomplishment in such a way that the interviewer will see that you are the one they have been looking for. Just tell in clear words how you think your stated accomplishment will make things better for the organization.

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Here are some inspirational quotes for you.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

-George S. Patton

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?

The similar questions can be: What are the accomplishments you are most proud of?
Can you explain me a job you did that you think is of greatest value? What are the greatest jobs done by you?

Whatever be the question, but the people interviewing you wants you tell them what big jobs you have done. You need to tell them what smart things you did and what skills you gained by doing those great things.

I hope you are not taking it so easy. Because there are three kinds of people in the world, believe me.

One: those who accomplish minor and exaggerate louder.
Second: those who do great jobs but cannot earn credit of it.
Third: Those who accomplish great things and make fame of it.

If you are an average, I am sure you fall in any of these two categories. And you are hard to escape. Got point? Yeah, you have to prepare to protect yourself from being a failure and you should make yourself strong to avoid falling into above stated categories. It is a must for better career.

As you read through the posts of this blog, you came to know that. I have stressed on the necessity of understanding exactly what the question looks for. If you come to the point, points will come to you with highest probability of winning the interview and getting the best job!

So let me tell you the facts that the interviewer expects from you by asking this question: What accomplishments you are most proud of? Or tell me the best job you have ever done.

The interviewer expects the following by asking you the mentioned question.

1. He wants to evaluate you by examining the worth of best things you have done. You are what you did. You heard them tell-“You are what you think. You are what you do”.

And I have two sentences to add: “You are what you think. You are what you eat.” And never forget another truth: “You are what your friend is”. You are what you except to be-real expectation-not a gambling!

The interviewer wants to know you by your best part.

2. The interviewer wants to know how you worked to achieve success. In other words, he wants to measure your strength. Success comes after hard work. By listing your answer s/he will know you work.

3. The interviewer wants to explore your potentials. He wants to map his organization with the possibilities within you.

For these reasons, the interviewer wants to listen the best story from you. You may have so many stories. Now tell me have you the skill to tell it in the best possible way? Wait until my next post just within half a week!!

Here are some statements to remind you how hard should one work to be successful.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Tough Interview Question: Why did you leave your last job?

People might have to leave their job for various reasons. Living of people determines their nature. Habits firmly establish nature and mostly it is nature of people that makes them smart, moderate or unsuitable for particular jobs.

You must have heard specialists say, “Do what you love. Love what you do.” So you need not to quit your job if you have all your heart in it. But human is slave of circumstances. Don’t blame be of being a kind who leaves everything in future’s hand. But it is not the rule of nature. However, if you want to succeed, you must stay hard in your way. Don’t let circumstances decide new you love, but create the circumstances you need to succeed. Right now I remember George Bernard Shaw. Let me recite him first.

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
-George Bernard Shaw

But still people quit jobs and look for new ones. In the lack of such mobility, organization becomes idle. No fresh air circulates among the employee. No motivation, no dream. No enthusiasm. Remember then what will happen to world of economy.

So you must assure yourself that you did not commit a crime by quitting your last job. Whatever be the reason, fill you mind with the thoughts of superiority. You had to quit it, and you quit it. No need to explain. Fell as free as the bird in the sky above you head.

Tips: Never feel guilty of quitting a job. Assure yourself that you have good reasons to quit it.

But you must tell the interviewer exactly why you leave your last job. You may wish to know why he is asking you to tell him/her the secret. Here are the reasons:

#1 The interviewer wants to understand your attitude towards your previous workplace, environment, boss, employee and co-workers. This helps the interviewer to map your potential in his/her organization in terms your personality and adaptation capability.

#2 The interviewer wants to knew what is the key point around which your ego revolves or on what your satisfaction resides.

#3 The interviewer wants to evaluate you in terms of your need, expectation and you ability towards grabbing opportunity.

Then what is the best way to tell the reasons for a job quitted recently. Question is important. And this one is more important.

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal”.
-George Orwell in The Animal Farm

Here is the step-by-step guide to best answer the question- why did you leave your last job?

#1 Tell the interviewer an exact reason. Do not it in the ‘this and that’ fashion. Being concentrated to the main reason makes your answer clear and believable.

#2 Justify your answer by backing it with some details. Make the backing reasons genuine.

#3 Put yourself in the center of the story. You did not quit your job because one of your relatives had to be hospitalized for a long time. But rather you quit your job to let your employee chose someone else to replace you so that they could smoothly run in you very frequent absence. Alternatively, you quit job because you decided to support your father in his business. You helped him for complete 2 years and now you are back in search of job like this one.

#4 Never ever blame your past co-workers or employers even if you have genuine reasons to do so. It is ok to talk about high risk of job but it is the riskiest to tell any bad words about your past organization and any of its human components. Remember blaming others means you have habit to find reason to do so.

#5 While answering, do not forget that you are just justifying the last job you quit and you are not going to include your experience of vacancy after quitting the job. Rather tell him that you are now freely and hopefully looking for joining an organization that can be fit for you.

Just for your refreshment here are two more statements from George Bernard Shaw.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place"