One key interview survival skill is the ability to call on detailed examples of experience at any given moment. You can’t put a price on good preparation but it can be made even easier if your experience is already well documented in your head – how? By documenting it well at the time. If you are currently in, or have recently finished, a work placement or position of responsibility then make sure you create a journal of your day to day activities like what you learnt, your progress, your mistakes and what you would have done differently if you had the chance again. You will soon find that practical examples to use in interview questions can be created out of many scenarios you may have faced at work. Writing things down will imprint them in your memory and having them to call on will make “umm’s” and “err’s” in an answer a thing of the past!
