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Young leaders fellowship practice interview

Leadership record, community impact, vision, collaboration and learning goals. Practise the 5 questions selection panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.

Practise this interview free

Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.

About the award

A young leaders fellowship interview selects people who have already led change and want structured support to do more. The panel looks at your leadership record, the impact you have had on a community or organisation, your vision for the next few years, how you work with others, and what you want to learn from the fellowship.

How to prepare

  1. Pick two leadership stories with clear outcomes, such as people reached or problems solved.
  2. Be ready to describe a time a project failed or stalled and what you changed.
  3. Write a one-sentence vision for your work and practise backing it with concrete next steps.
  4. Study the fellowship's focus areas and past activities so you can say what you want from it.
  5. Think about how you share credit and handle disagreements within a team.

Common mistakes

  • Describing a title or position instead of what you actually did and changed.
  • Speaking about vision in big words with no plan for the next year.
  • Treating the fellowship as a free trip rather than a chance to learn and contribute.

What to expect

A real selection interview

5 questions the way selection panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.

Spoken, like the real thing

Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.

Scored on 5 areas

The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.

A private report

On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.

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