In total you can expect the PEI to be 12-15 minutes in length - rarely less, but some of my coaching candidates also had more extensive PEIs up to 20 minutes.
Usually I recommend using the PARADE framework to structure your PEI. According to the PARADE frarmework, the following time schedule is a good rule of thumb:
- Headline (~15-30 seconds)
- Bucket 1 (~1-2 minutes): Problem, anticipated consequence, role
- Intermediate structure (~30 seconds)
- Bucket 2 (~8-10 minutes): Action, decision-making rationale
- Closing (~30 seconds): End-result
As you can see by the time allocated to the single areas of the PARADE framework, the focus is clearly on your actions and decision-making rationale, where the interviewer will go deep and might ask lots of probing questions.
When you start preparing your PEI examples, 10-12 minutes for talking about some experiences within one situation might seem rather long, and maybe you are even wondering how it will be possible to talk about a situation for so long time during your interviews. However, as you will see going more into the details of the PARADE framework, this 10-12 minutes will be passing very quickly, especially when you are running through your interviewer step-by-step and explaining your decision-making rationale for all those actions.
In total you can expect the PEI to be 12-15 minutes in length - rarely less, but some of my coaching candidates also had more extensive PEIs up to 20 minutes.
Usually I recommend using the PARADE framework to structure your PEI. According to the PARADE frarmework, the following time schedule is a good rule of thumb:
- Headline (~15-30 seconds)
- Bucket 1 (~1-2 minutes): Problem, anticipated consequence, role
- Intermediate structure (~30 seconds)
- Bucket 2 (~8-10 minutes): Action, decision-making rationale
- Closing (~30 seconds): End-result
As you can see by the time allocated to the single areas of the PARADE framework, the focus is clearly on your actions and decision-making rationale, where the interviewer will go deep and might ask lots of probing questions.
When you start preparing your PEI examples, 10-12 minutes for talking about some experiences within one situation might seem rather long, and maybe you are even wondering how it will be possible to talk about a situation for so long time during your interviews. However, as you will see going more into the details of the PARADE framework, this 10-12 minutes will be passing very quickly, especially when you are running through your interviewer step-by-step and explaining your decision-making rationale for all those actions.