From the course: Find Your Dream Job: Interview Techniques and Resume Writing

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"Describe an achievement"

"Describe an achievement"

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"Describe an achievement"

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- The final question you might get asked when they're asking you about your current job is, describe an achievement from your current job. Now, I would say you need to have three achievements ready because there is a risk they'll ask for more than one achievement and there's a trick that interviewers sometimes use which is to ask for three because the first one's easy, everybody's got something they've achieved and they will have prepared that, and then if you ask them a second example, they can probably wing it, but if you ask somebody for a third one, they're going to really struggle and that's going to be the truth. So they may ask for three, so you need to have three examples ready of achievements. Now, the good thing is, if you've got three prepared and they ask for an example of an achievement, you can sneak in two or three. You can say, well actually, a couple of achievements that just spring to mind, and why not if…

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