Career · Intermediate · about 18 minutes

Interview preparation — rehearse the answers you will actually be asked

You know your achievements. In the interview you are asked to describe a difficult situation, and you produce four minutes of context, no clear action, and no result. You leave knowing you had a better answer than the one you gave.

You need

Role: Assistant Manager – Finance, D2C brand. Mock question: 'Tell me about a time you had to fix a process that was badly broken.' My answer (as spoken): 'So when I joined the company, the accounts department was quite small, there were three of us, and the previous person had left about four…

Tool

Any assistant, with a strict-feedback instruction

You get

SCORE: 2/5. The underlying story is strong and your delivery gave almost none of it away.

Time saved

Effective preparation in about 90 minutes, against either no preparation or hours of unfocused reading.