examples of collaborative working that demonstrate exactly what you did, and how this contributed to the team. Think of structuring these examples around a STAR -- situation, task, action and result -- to make them pertinent and persuasive. When working on the committee of a university society, for example, you may have encountered a situation in which you needed to generate interest in an event to make sure the money and effort spent on it wasn't wasted. Perhaps your task was to put up posters on campus, but you took action by engaging the rest of your committee team in helping you hand out flyers and talk to people about the event. The result was that you had twice as many attendees as in the previous year, and raised a sum of 750 for charity -- both are quantitative outcomes that will impress at interview and make it clear how you worked with a team to contribute to the result. Finally, you're likely to be given the opportunity to ask your own questions at the end of an interview, and it can be tricky to know how to respond. In this situation, you could ask what your potential team's goals are for the next few months, and what you would be doing to help them to achieve them. This is a positive and thoughtful way to demonstrate that you are a team player. Once you've landed the job Take each task seriously: while you may be supporting the team by