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Curating your reply.

Planning answers is challenging, especially when the question is unknown. However, understanding questions and their rationale, and practising structured answers increases agility, reaction and effectiveness.

Here we show:
  • modal answers including typical vocabulary and structures
  • articles showing perspectives from employee, employer, recruiters and more
Model answers
Sometimes, answering a question is easier when you see an example.

Remember, answers are about making you and your experiences shine. Questions are about finding the right candidate: if in doubt, clarify the question. Unless a thoroughly detailed answer is required, be brief.

The following vary in length and language. If in doubt, ask your coach.
[MA4] What are you like under pressure?
[MA5] How did you make a difference in your last company?
[MA6] How would you interview for potential?
[MA7] When has your work been criticised? What was your response?
[MA8] Tell me about a time when an emergency from above caused you to reschedule workload/ projects. How did you feel?
Articles
Selected from various sources, we believe preparation is key. Obtaining a balanced viewpoint is not just about complementing our own experience, but deepens our understanding and answer.

Whether informal, managerial or academic, our sources are chosen to provide suitable preparatory material, including interesting ideas and practical recommendations.
Show, don't just tell!
Communicating our value is necessary, but how we do so is essential. However, communicating value alone is insufficient; we must show and illustrate our value. Painting a picture, in which our reader or listener can visualise and understand value, increases our message effectiveness.

Telling someone how nice they are sounds bland, almost ungrateful. Showing gratefulness through a gift expresses thanks more effectively. Likewise in an interview: rather than say you are good, show how effective your actions are to the business, the manager, the team.

When we show, we illustrate our value:
  • we paint pictures in reader's mind
  • within the business world we provide tangible examples for investors, managers and clients
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