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Old 21st Jan 2020, 22:57
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shiningstarofcheso
 
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Definitely include - It’s useful and mostly effective as a conversation point in seriously executed interviews, which helps immensely when building a rapport with the interviewer and gets you their attention.

In more junior roles it might be useful where industry experience examples are lacking as It corroborates certain traits (decision making, working under pressure etc). In experienced roles though I’d never use that as a lead example unless the question was, or you wanted to make clear, it’s how do you demonstrate an attribute or conduct yourself personally outside the work environment.

A good interviewer will look for relevant examples and if it was a choice between candidates, all things equal, they will go with the most relevant evidence. If it was a business context, and the question is how you change your decision making style in emergencies, you’d pick some one who talked about an example in a business context over someone who talked about declaring a mayday. The advantage you have is that if you gave both they’d go with you.
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