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children 'disappearing' at clear-up time & parents were amazed
to hear how involved their children had become in this activity.
Please describe a situation where you had to PERSUADE
someone to do something. How did you go about it? Were
you successful?
CONTEXT
Last year I was living off-campus in a student house with
friends. The place was quite old and did not have a functional
television aerial. I was in charge of liaising with our landlord. I
called him up to ask if he could fix it for us.
ACTION
He was reluctant to do so unless we paid but I persuaded him
finally by saying that it would be beneficial for him as it would
be easier to rent the house out for next year. Also, it would be
unfair on us to pay for an aerial that we would only use for
about nine months.
RESULT
I was successful with my persuasion and reason. The aerial was
fixed at no cost to us.

Source:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/persuading.htm

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