Using STAR helps you avoid rambling and ensures you cover all the important parts of your experience. It makes your answers clear and easy for the interviewer to follow. It’s a solid way to present ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. Have you ever been left speechless at a job interview because ...

Success stories follow a simple rule: They’re only as good as the response you get from your customer. So how do you get those ideal answers, the ones that are honest and illuminating and positive?

Graham Robson on how the Client Interviewing Competition promotes interpersonal skills. Like everyone else who studied law in the 70s, I learned black letter law at university. When I asked in the ...

We’ve all had them: questions from clients with answers that seem so obvious to us that they can be difficult to explain. As financial advisors, it’s easy to get frustrated when a client asks ...

We just couldn’t let him get away from us. This is what we knew after interviewing one of four final candidates for a critical, and highly competitive, senior management role. He (whom we’ll call Greg ...