well hello there I'm Natalie your career
lifeguard and author of get any job you
want today we're going to talk about the
power of stories so we're going to talk
about a specific story that you're asked
to tell in an interview and that is tell
me a bit of time in you handle a
difficult situation
the real question here is how do you act
when you get stuck to bad stuff do you
think well on your feet what did you do
last time this happened a lot of people
get stumped when they get asked these
kind of questions
these scenario-based questions because
they haven't thought it through before
and it is hard to think of a story on
the spot what you'll learn today how
long your shuri should be what to do if
you get caught off guard
and you're really stumped for an answer
an example story that we'll share for
inspiration and just for fun I'd like to
share a bad example of how this question
has been answered in the past so stay
tuned
you
how long should your stories be I always
save 30 seconds to a minute long
generally no longer than a minute and a
half
be warned because you could just get
caught talking and never stop and
rambling is a deal-breaker in an
interview characteristically you should
have a story prepared even if you're
great at what you do if you ramble
you'll be less likely to impress anybody
so I can't stress enough the stories the
stories that you have the experiences
that you've had are what making you a
unique person they are the way in which
you'll be remembered so tell as many
stories in interviews as you possibly
can I have a downloadable guide of
inspirational stories that you can click
to get click join below and you can get
started with those if you want you can
also ask people sending email to friends
or people you've worked with in the past
and ask them for some stories that they
remember about you they'll be more
likely to remember than you sometimes
sometimes would be a funny story
sometimes not so good but it's always a
good thing to do if you get stumped what
do you want to do have a basic theme to
go on so for example you can have a main
answer that applies to a lot of
different scenario based questions if I
get some sometimes I'll just go back to
communication because communication is
everything so if you they talked about
how to handle a difficult situation and
you've got nothing you're drawing a
blank you can say this and only if it's
really in line with who you are I tend
to believe that in any situation it can
be improved by good communication
oftentimes situations get exasperated
because people are not clear on what the
other person means or what the other
person expected them with improving the
communication full circle and doing a
little investigation and information
finding figuring things out and moving
forward becomes a lot more clear now
this wasn't a story with it with
specific examples but it'll work it's
better than nothing so you can call it
your backup story if you are a better
example would be an actual story and I
will share one of mine with you there
was a time at work where there were two
different high level executives who
asked me to do something and they both
asked me to
completely opposite things this put me
in a very awkward position because I
didn't know who to listen to and they
were both very busy people and I didn't
want to go back and ask too many
questions so how I handled it was I was
able to put them in contact with each
other and make them aware of the
conflict in a nice way what ended up
happening was they apologized to each
other then they apologized to me and
they came back with what they wouldn't
need to do as a collective unit so I was
able to continue on with my job and they
were more careful to check with each
other before giving me a particular task
I will give you another example this one
was from way way back but I liked it
I was working at a gym and my coworker
had left because she was sick and I
ended up being left with an interview to
conduct an orientation to run with eight
new gym members waiting and they were
all there at the same time I literally
had two places to be at once this was a
difficult situation because my manager
was unavailable I tried phoning her and
she wasn't picking up the phone the
front desk lady had to remain at the
front desk and the trainer's who were
working had their own clients so there
was really no one else who could help me
and my manager wasn't available so how
did I handle the situation I asked the
gentleman coming in for the interview if
he would join me on the orientation I
figured this would get him to see how we
do things in the gym and it demonstrated
how he acted with a group of people he
did well he demonstrated a couple deep
exercises and after the orientation
ended I was able to finish up the
interview and the crisis was averted so
that's an example of figuring out every
two places I'd learned pretty difficult
okay
now for a bad example I pulled this
example from real life scenario where I
was interviewing for an HR assistant I
actually asked her to tell me about a
time when she had handled confidential
information so not exactly the same
question but kind of so she kept
repeating the same thing with more and
more passion but wasn't giving me any
new information and I was
dating because I really wanted to know I
asked her tell me about a time when you
had a little confidential info and she
kept saying every day all the time every
day all the time I had a confidential
interest but she never gave any specific
time I said what can you give an example
of a time when you didn't she's like
everyday all the time so the moral of
this story if you don't be specifics
you'll either be remembered as the
person who wasn't specific or you know
you won't be remembered at all so be
specific and there you have it the
answer to this difficult situation
question now I'd love to hear from you
what's your story on this you have a
pickle that you'd like to share how you
got out of it's pretty good when you
were able to think your way out of a
hard situation if you'd like to dive
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current process that we use for finding
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see you next week and I can't wait
you