Candidates: How to answer questions in an interview

I came across this article (http://www.officearrow.com/job-search/the-star-method-of-interviewing-oaiur-107/view.html) and thought I'd share some of the method with candidates that are preparing for interviews:

The STAR method breaks this down:

Situation (or Task)
Describe what was happening and what needed to be accomplished. Be specific - don't generalize by saying "I always..." Pick one particular event.
Action
Describe specifically what you did.
Result
Explain what happened, what was accomplished, what you learned, etc.
Share these three things in each of your answers and you'll be putting your best foot forward.

Here's a practical example:
When applying for a vacancy in a technical scientific direction you might be faced with a question in the line of "What are your technical strengths?"
Instead of listing a dry bunch of skills use the STAR method:
I work in a Food Testing laboratory as an Analytical Chemist. We had a client bring in a sample that they suspected was tainted with a banned substance (SITUATION) and they needed it identified and quantified (TASK). It was a difficult task that required me to spend a lot of time on different instrumentation including HPLC, GCMS and finally LCMS (ACTION). We were able to both identify and quantify the banned compound and provide the client with potential scenarios of how it had landed up in the finished product (RESULT).

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