Choose a skill you can observe
“Be more confident” is difficult to practise directly. “State my point in the first sentence” is something you can hear in a recording. Choose one goal for each rehearsal. Other useful goals include explaining your reasoning, making your individual contribution clear and finishing with an outcome.
Answer, review and try again
- Pick a question connected to a responsibility in the vacancy.
- Answer once without stopping to perfect each sentence.
- Review the answer for your chosen goal and note one change.
- Answer again, then try a slightly different question to test whether the improvement transfers.
Try it now
Put this answer into your own words
Tell me about a time you solved a difficult problem.
- Choose an example from your own experience and jot down three or four reminders.
- Record your answer in one take. Listen for the main point, what you did and what happened.
- Improve the part that was hardest to follow, then say the answer again.
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