Your examples do not all need to come from a full-time job
An early-career interview gives you room to explain how you work and what you have learned. Relevant evidence can come from group projects, volunteering, a society, caring responsibilities or part-time work. Choose examples where you can explain your own action and a useful result. Do not apologise for having less experience; make the experience you have understandable.
Prepare three kinds of example
- Working with others: a disagreement, shared deadline or decision in a group.
- Taking responsibility: something you organised, improved or followed through.
- Learning: a skill you developed and then used to complete a task.
- For each example, note the situation, your contribution, the result and what you learned.
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Put this answer into your own words
Tell me about a time you worked in a team.
- 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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