Work backwards from the responsibilities
Read the vacancy and underline the behaviours it needs: influencing others, prioritising work, resolving issues or taking ownership. Choose an example for each of the most important areas. Include projects that were difficult as well as successful ones; they give you room to discuss judgement, feedback and learning.
Build a story bank you can actually use
- Choose four to six experiences across work, study, volunteering or other relevant responsibilities.
- Write a few notes for each: problem, your responsibility, action, result and lesson.
- Practise adapting the same story to different questions.
- Ask follow-ups about alternatives, disagreements and what you would change.
Try it now
Put this answer into your own words
Tell me about a time you had to change your approach.
- 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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