You get plenty of time to write examples to each of the questions they ask. I.e A time you dealt with extreme pressure? Then they ask you further questions about the example you gave. The actual MMI will be different for everyone as it all depends on what you write down. The only advice I can give is to give legitimate examples only. If you make up answers it'll be harder to make stuff up when you are questioned about them. If you speak about real experiences your answers will flow more naturally, and this will show.
I'm currently waiting for a DMI so if you have any advice on that, or the questions you was asked I would very much appreciate it.
That's good then because I'm very fortunate to have been in a job where I have an example for everything, time will be on my side there!
The DMI was daunting! First of all they ask you about yourself and your employment history, then they asked what I know about Northern and why I wanted to be a train driver. What I thought the role of a train driver was etc. Then there was what felt like 8/9 tell me about a time questions.. ones I can remember were;
- Name a time you've dealt with a colleague who has a different approach to you
- Name a time you've communicated clearly in an emergency situation
- Name a time you've had to work by yourself and maintain concentration
- Name a time you had to prioritise a different task
- Name a time you've been given a project, why was it important
With those questions as well there was lots of mini questions in them so it made thinking of an example on the spot even harder. It seemed to go on and on forever, I even quoted the wrong CEO of the company but that was Wikipedias fault so I just said some more facts and joked they're from Wiki too so they're probably wrong.
Just be yourself, I was dropping little jokes for the tell me about yourself bit just to ease tension a little bit and it seemed to work.
