Responsibility

Interview is a time when you can demonstrate that you are a very responsible person.  Have examples of responsibilities that you have undertaken and carried them out to success.  Every company needs employees who are self motivated to be responsible. Blame mentality does not work.

If we have been brought up in an environment where we can blame others for failure, we may continue the same in corporate, but it will not be appreciated. We must be independent and not blame others when things do not go right. Remember what our mothers do when we children bang their head by mistake against a wall and hurt ourselves and cry? All mothers have a sure shot method of stopping children from crying when that happens. They bang the wall and blame it for causing hurt and children immediately keep quiet thinking that the wall was to be blamed. Problem arises when we continue this attitude of blaming others whenever things go wrong once we reach adulthood and start working. Then such blaming is considered as passing the buck.

You will not be considered as a responsible person if at every failure you give excuses and pass the blame to others. Winners do not give excuses, they give solutions.  When you act in a responsible manner, you do not blame others when things do not work out successfully at the end. You would have anticipated the problems and taken the right measures in advance.