Like a lot of hiring managers, Adriane Schwager likes to ask candidates about times in their career they've made a mistake.
Usually, it's to get an idea of how you handle stressful situations and how you learn from previous errors.
For Schwager, the CEO and co-founder of the hiring platform GrowthAssistant with 20 years of recruiting experience, the answer can uncover a big red flag: whether the person has low ownership of their work.
Take an example where someone forgot to send something important to accounting, and it cost the business $250,000, she says.
Sometimes, she can also tell whether a candidate has low ownership based on how they describe why they left their previous job.
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