Sustainable business master's admissions interview practice
Sustainability challenges, stakeholder trade-offs, credible measurement and the integration of environmental and social goals into strategy. Practise the 5 questions admissions panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the programme
This interview considers your readiness to study how organisations respond to environmental and social pressures. The panel wants reasoned judgement rather than slogans, including an ability to follow impacts through a value chain, assess evidence and discuss difficult trade-offs among stakeholders.
How to prepare
- Study one sustainability challenge in a sector you know and trace its causes through the value chain.
- Compare two possible interventions, including costs, benefits and unintended effects.
- Prepare an example of using evidence to challenge an environmental or social claim.
- Identify stakeholders who are often overlooked when organisations make sustainability decisions.
- Clarify the work you hope to do after the programme and the knowledge you still need.
Common mistakes
- Using broad claims about saving the planet without defining a manageable problem.
- Assuming every environmental improvement also produces an immediate commercial benefit.
- Relying on a single headline measure while ignoring effects elsewhere in the value chain.
- Treating stakeholder disagreement as resistance instead of examining legitimate concerns.
What to expect
A real admissions interview
5 questions the way admissions 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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