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With hindsight, I'd certainly have done a bit more revision of my career successes to help me talk about them more readily. As it stood, I was like a rabbit in the headlights, totally unprepared and quickly trying to rack my brains through a 25 year career! I failed dramatically! Ignorantly, coming from a private sector background, I thought the interview would be a nice comfortable chit-chat about my skills and experience in a more general way, and demonstrating how I would fit into the team and benefit the organisation... Now I realise they were probably looking for a series of structured responses, each quoting an example using the STAR interview method. Less