Working Together

Building genuinely collaborative relationships, valuing diverse perspectives, and stepping outside your own team's interests for a shared outcome.

What this behaviour means

Working Together is often under-scored because candidates describe being friendly or getting on with colleagues, rather than a specific instance of active collaboration — resolving a disagreement, bringing in a perspective that changed the outcome, or making an inconvenient compromise for a shared goal.

What assessors are looking for

• A specific relationship or collaboration, not "I'm a team player"
• Evidence you actively sought out or valued a different perspective, rather than just working alongside people
• How you handled friction or disagreement, if there was any
• A shared outcome that wouldn't have happened without the collaboration

Common mistakes

• Generic claims ("I always work well with others") with no specific incident behind them
• Describing your own individual contribution to a group project rather than the collaboration itself
• Avoiding any mention of disagreement or difficulty — a frictionless story is less convincing than one showing how you handled a real difference of opinion

How to structure your STAR example

Situation

Describe who you needed to work with and why it mattered — a different team, an external partner, someone with a conflicting priority.

Task

Say what the shared goal was, and what made reaching it require real collaboration rather than just parallel work.

Action

Show what you actually did to build the relationship or resolve friction — asking questions, adjusting your own position, finding common ground.

Result

State the outcome for the shared goal, and ideally something about the relationship itself (it continued, it improved, the other party changed their view).