Have got a promotion interview coming up, competency based which I've not done before as I'm fairly junior and this is a post with line manager responsibilities. I've been researching how to approach competency interviews and understand that you need to give specific examples of how you've dealt with particular situations. Ok so so far so good. I've got lots of examples from my current and previous few jobs I can use. However prior to coming back to the UK when I had my son 15 years ago and working fairly quietly in admin since, I worked in various places abroad which were quite volatile, one of which was pretty much in a state of civil war during my time there. I was employed to do a specific job in each country and in the process of doing so developed lots of the skills they're looking for here eg resolving conflict etc. This is all part of my working life and I wonder if I could use one incident in particular as an example of me meeting a competency.
It just seems, I dunno, weird to bring it up in a cosy teams interview in the UK with people who don't have the same reference points as I do. Or it could be a killer point eg "well she resolved the situation even when there were folks going around shooting people". I'm just not sure.