An example answer to a STAR question:

Situation: During my graduate placement last year, I was responsible for managing the annual customer Christmas party.
Task: I noticed that attendance by key customers at the event had dropped over the past 3 years and wanted to do something to improve these numbers.
Action: After approval from my manager I contacted the key customer representatives to collect feedback on our events to understand why they were not attending. Following this I run an internal round table discussion to raise awareness of the issue with our …

A majority of the interview will be you answering questions, as mentioned before these will most likely be behavioural based questions.
Answering behavioural based questions is a fairly simple process once you know what the interviewer is looking for. A typical interview question could be “Tell me about the most challenging change you’ve faced at work. What did you do? What were the results?” This question is trying to assess you adaptability to change, and how you cope with change.
The behavioural interviewing approach tries to uncover how you behave in specific …