Civil Service Mock Interview
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How do you deal with stress?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I don't fight it. I accept the adrenaline response for what it is and use the energy for what it is worth. I own my stress instead of allowing my stress to own me."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I move through it. I used to allow stress to overwhelm me and cause some task paralysis, but now I move through it."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
This question aims to help your interviewer assess whether you can govern your emotions or if your emotional responses dictate your behaviour. In other words, it's perfectly natural to experience stress so long as your stress isn't detrimental to your work performance. Share how you cope with and master stress while remaining emotionally mature and grounded.
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