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<blockquote data-quote="Jaysen" data-source="post: 28529" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I'd interpret challenging competency questions like these fairly broadly; it's not easy to think of a time when you broke a specific written rule, but you might be able to think of a situation where you disobeyed what you should have done. If it helps, you might want to think of situations where you had to do something different to what you 'should' have done (and then retrospectively, try to work out what the rule was).</p><p></p><p>For example, one that comes to mind for me was during my first vacation scheme, when we were supposed to attend a lunch with partners from different departments. I had already promised an associate I would submit some work, so when an associate told me to leave the work and go to the lunch, I stood by my decision that I couldn't. I would class this as 'breaking the rules'. It's hard to know how strictly recruiters will lenient recruiters are with these questions, but I'd like to think they'd be flexible to answers to this kind of challenging question.</p><p></p><p>I'll come back to your question on Covid-19 in the future. It's so uncertain right now that I can't really give a well-informed opinion on this!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaysen, post: 28529, member: 1"] I'd interpret challenging competency questions like these fairly broadly; it's not easy to think of a time when you broke a specific written rule, but you might be able to think of a situation where you disobeyed what you should have done. If it helps, you might want to think of situations where you had to do something different to what you 'should' have done (and then retrospectively, try to work out what the rule was). For example, one that comes to mind for me was during my first vacation scheme, when we were supposed to attend a lunch with partners from different departments. I had already promised an associate I would submit some work, so when an associate told me to leave the work and go to the lunch, I stood by my decision that I couldn't. I would class this as 'breaking the rules'. It's hard to know how strictly recruiters will lenient recruiters are with these questions, but I'd like to think they'd be flexible to answers to this kind of challenging question. I'll come back to your question on Covid-19 in the future. It's so uncertain right now that I can't really give a well-informed opinion on this! [/QUOTE]
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