Workplace Wellbeing: Failure as a stepping stone to success 

Our instinct is to hide our mistakes but being open about them opens the door to new opportunities and helps to build trust with colleagues 

Basant Shenouda, originally from Eygpt who has been working in Dublin for the past three years. . Photograph Moya Nolan

Basant Shenouda knows how much it hurts to fail. The 26-year-old Egyptian lives in Dublin, where she works for LinkedIn, but after university she failed to get a job.

“I wanted to work in tech and landed interviews with the likes of Google and Facebook, but consistently got rejected,” says the marketing graduate.