Approaching employment
Dace Elletson (School Principal, Annandale Public School), Raelene Seales (Chief Operating Officer, General
Insurance Division, Zurich Australia) and Belinda Walker (Senior Counsel, University of Sydney) discuss what
they look for when interviewing job candidates. It is often said that it is important to learn from our
failures. As our interviewees in this video explain, a candidate’s insights into how they learnt through their
mistakes can speak volumes.
Suggested activity
- Watch the video
- Think about an interview you have attended or might attend in the future
- Note down a few details about the job to help focus your mind
- Can you think of a relevant experience that didn’t go as expected, but that you later regarded as an important learning experience
- What did you learn? What does it illustrate about you?
- How could you articulate this in an interview in a way that engages but does not get caught up in too many details?