[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-tell-me-about-a-time-you-influenced-someone-internship-interview":3,"blog-index":16,"mdc-vxq2ms-key":428,"live-hubs":987},{"slug":4,"title":5,"description":6,"date":7,"tags":8,"author":12,"draft":13,"readingMinutes":14,"body":15},"tell-me-about-a-time-you-influenced-someone-internship-interview","Tell Me About a Time You Influenced Someone","No workplace story? Answer \\\"tell me about a time you influenced someone\\\" with a club or class example: the pick-the-moment rule, a worked answer, and traps.","2026-08-25",[9,10,11],"internships","interviews","career-advice","Student Internships Team",false,8,"\"Tell me about a time you influenced someone\" lands and your first thought is \"I've never persuaded anyone at a job.\" You don't need a job. You need one moment where you changed what a group did without any power to make them, and almost everyone has one in a class project or a club. This guide gives you the rule for picking that story, the one move that separates a good answer from a bragging one, a full worked example with no title in it, and the traps that quietly sink the whole thing.\n\n## What the interviewer is actually testing\n\nThis is a question about influence without authority. On their team you'll be the intern with power over no one, and work will still need to happen through other people. So they're watching for three things.\n\n**Can you move people without ordering them.** You had no way to compel anyone, and they changed course anyway because of how you made the case. That's the whole skill.\n\n**Do you listen before you push.** The strongest answers show you understood the other person's view first, then built on it. The weak ones show you arriving with the right answer and repeating it louder.\n\n**Can you disagree without making enemies.** You changed someone's mind and they'd still want to work with you afterward. If your story leaves the other person looking foolish, the interviewer starts wondering what you'll say about *them* one day.\n\nHere's the version that fails, and it's the most common one: \"I was right, they were wrong, so I proved it with better data.\" Persuasion is not winning an argument. Someone can lose an argument and change nothing. The signal they want is that you brought a person around, not that you out-facted them.\n\n## The rule for picking your story\n\nPick a moment you got someone, or a group, to adopt your idea when you had no power to make them. Run it past three checks before you commit:\n\n1. **There was a real difference of view at the start.** You wanted one thing, they wanted another. If everyone already agreed, there was nothing to influence.\n2. **You actually changed what they did.** Their plan, their vote, their approach shifted because of you. A conversation where you spoke and nothing moved is not this story.\n3. **The outcome was good.** The thing you steered them toward worked out, or at least clearly helped.\n\nOne disqualifier settles most wrong picks fast: if you held formal authority and they *had* to comply, it's the wrong story. \"I was the shift lead so they did it my way\" tests nothing. The point of the question is the part where you had no lever and it worked anyway.\n\n### Where students find this\n\nYou do not need work experience for any of this. The raw material is sitting in your last year:\n\n- Steering a **group project** toward a different direction than the one it was drifting into.\n- Getting a **club** to try a new format for an event or a meeting.\n- Convincing a **study group** to switch how they were preparing.\n- Talking a **teammate** out of a plan that would have cost you time, marks, or a working demo.\n\nNone of these come with a title attached, which is exactly why they work. If you want the neighboring angle, this overlaps with [leadership without a title](\u002Fblog\u002Ftell-me-about-a-time-you-showed-leadership-internship-interview), and the same moment often feeds both.\n\n## The move that separates a good answer from a bragging one\n\nHere is the core of a strong answer: understand their view first, then make the case. Most students do the opposite. They lead with why their idea is better and treat the other person as an obstacle to get past.\n\nFlip the order. Ask why they preferred their approach. Underneath almost every stated preference is a real concern: they're worried about time, about risk, about the grade, about doing extra work near a deadline. Find that concern, then frame your idea as the thing that solves it. You're not defeating their position; you're answering the worry that produced it.\n\nWatch the difference on the same moment:\n\n> Bragging version: \"I explained that my approach was clearly more efficient, and eventually they agreed.\"\n\n> Influence version: \"I asked why they wanted to stick with the original plan. Turned out they were worried a rewrite would blow the deadline. So I proposed a smaller version we could finish in the same time, which handled their worry and still fixed the problem.\"\n\nSame idea wins in both. Only the second shows you can actually bring a person around, because it starts with their concern instead of your correctness.\n\n## STAR shape, weighted on the how\n\nTell this with [the STAR method](\u002Fblog\u002Fstar-method-behavioral-interview-questions), which covers the full mechanics, so here is only what's specific to the influence question.\n\nKeep **Situation** and **Task** short: who was involved, what the difference of view was, in a sentence or two. Spend the bulk of the answer on **Action**, and make that Action show the sequence, you listened, you found the real concern, you reframed your idea around it, they came around. That listen-then-persuade order is the thing being graded. End with a concrete **Result**.\n\nThe whole answer should be weighted on *how* you brought them around, not on how good your idea was. If a stranger can't tell what you did to change their mind, you've told them an opinion, not a persuasion story.\n\n## A worked example (from a group project)\n\nMade-up project, ordinary outcome, no invented numbers. Watch where the words go and how it starts with the other side's concern.\n\n> \"On a four-person course project, the group wanted to build an ambitious version of our app with a lot of new features, and we had about three weeks. **[situation]** I thought we were going to run out of time and demo something half-finished, but I'd been overruled once already, so instead of arguing the point again I asked why everyone was set on the big version. **[task]** It came out that they were worried a simpler build would look lazy and cost us marks. That was the real concern, not the features themselves. So I reframed it: I said we all wanted a strong grade, and a polished small thing beats an impressive broken thing in a live demo. I sketched a cut-down version that kept the one feature the idea actually needed and dropped the rest, and I showed how it fit the three weeks with time to test. **[action, weighted heaviest]** The group switched to that plan. We finished with a few days to spare, the demo ran clean, and the thing we cut we listed as 'next steps,' which the marker liked. What changed their minds wasn't me insisting I was right. It was starting from the worry underneath their plan. **[result and the point]**\"\n\nNotice there's no title, no villain, and no data-dump. The group had a fair reason, the student found it, and the reframe answered it.\n\n## Traps that sink this answer\n\n- **Making it a won argument.** \"I proved them wrong\" is not persuasion; it's a scoreboard. Show a mind changing, not a debate scored.\n- **Casting the other person as the villain.** Words like stubborn, clueless, or difficult make *you* look hard to work with, not them.\n- **A story where you actually had authority.** If they had to do it because you were in charge, you've answered a different question.\n- **Manipulation.** Pressuring people, wearing them down, or going over their head to someone senior is the opposite of what's being tested.\n- **\"We\" with no \"I\".** If the whole story is what the group decided, your specific move disappears. It's fine to set the scene in \"we,\" but [keep your own contribution visible](\u002Fblog\u002Ftell-me-about-a-time-you-worked-on-a-team-internship-interview) the moment you reach what you did.\n\n## Frequently asked questions\n\n### What's a good example of influencing someone without authority?\n\nA group-project or club decision where you had no power to compel anyone. You wanted one direction, others wanted another, and instead of pulling rank (you had none) you listened, found the concern under their preference, reframed your idea around it, and they came around. The no-power part is what makes it a real influence story.\n\n### What's the difference between the influence question and the conflict question?\n\nThey can use the same raw moment, but the emphasis differs. [The conflict question](\u002Fblog\u002Ftell-me-about-a-time-you-had-a-conflict-with-a-teammate-internship-interview) is about resolving a clash cleanly, so it leans on no-blame framing. The influence question is about changing a mind toward your idea, so weight it on *how* you persuaded: listen, find the concern, reframe. A similar story is fine; shift the weight to the persuasion.\n\n### How do I answer if I have no work experience?\n\nYou don't need a job. Coursework, clubs, and study groups all count, and interviewers screening interns expect exactly that. Pick a real difference of view from the last year where you moved a peer or a group, and tell it the same way you'd tell a workplace one.\n\n### Do I need data to persuade in my answer?\n\nNo. Data can support your case, but the stronger signal is that you understood their view first. Lead with the listening, then use evidence as backup. An answer that's all facts and no listening reads as \"I out-argued them,\" which is the weaker version.\n\n### What if the person didn't actually change their mind?\n\nThen pick a different story. This answer needs an outcome that shifted at least partly because of you. A moment where nothing moved, or where you were overruled, belongs in [the \"tell me about a time you failed\" answer](\u002Fblog\u002Ftell-me-about-a-time-you-failed-internship-interview), not here.\n\n---\n\nToday, pick one moment where you moved a group with no title to make them. Write the other person's original view in one honest sentence, the fair version, not the villain version. Then draft your Action around understanding their concern first and reframing your idea to solve it, and [practice saying it out loud](\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-practice-for-an-internship-interview) once so the listen-then-persuade sequence comes out clean. 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You wanted one direction, others wanted another, and instead of pulling rank (you had none) you listened, found the concern under their preference, reframed your idea around it, and they came around. The no-power part is what makes it a real influence story.",{"type":434,"tag":556,"props":897,"children":899},{"id":898},"whats-the-difference-between-the-influence-question-and-the-conflict-question",[900],{"type":439,"value":901},"What's the difference between the influence question and the conflict question?",{"type":434,"tag":435,"props":903,"children":904},{},[905,907,913,915,919],{"type":439,"value":906},"They can use the same raw moment, but the emphasis differs. ",{"type":434,"tag":625,"props":908,"children":910},{"href":909},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftell-me-about-a-time-you-had-a-conflict-with-a-teammate-internship-interview",[911],{"type":439,"value":912},"The conflict question",{"type":439,"value":914}," is about resolving a clash cleanly, so it leans on no-blame framing. The influence question is about changing a mind toward your idea, so weight it on ",{"type":434,"tag":485,"props":916,"children":917},{},[918],{"type":439,"value":737},{"type":439,"value":920}," you persuaded: listen, find the concern, reframe. A similar story is fine; shift the weight to the persuasion.",{"type":434,"tag":556,"props":922,"children":924},{"id":923},"how-do-i-answer-if-i-have-no-work-experience",[925],{"type":439,"value":926},"How do I answer if I have no work experience?",{"type":434,"tag":435,"props":928,"children":929},{},[930],{"type":439,"value":931},"You don't need a job. Coursework, clubs, and study groups all count, and interviewers screening interns expect exactly that. Pick a real difference of view from the last year where you moved a peer or a group, and tell it the same way you'd tell a workplace one.",{"type":434,"tag":556,"props":933,"children":935},{"id":934},"do-i-need-data-to-persuade-in-my-answer",[936],{"type":439,"value":937},"Do I need data to persuade in my answer?",{"type":434,"tag":435,"props":939,"children":940},{},[941],{"type":439,"value":942},"No. Data can support your case, but the stronger signal is that you understood their view first. Lead with the listening, then use evidence as backup. An answer that's all facts and no listening reads as \"I out-argued them,\" which is the weaker version.",{"type":434,"tag":556,"props":944,"children":946},{"id":945},"what-if-the-person-didnt-actually-change-their-mind",[947],{"type":439,"value":948},"What if the person didn't actually change their mind?",{"type":434,"tag":435,"props":950,"children":951},{},[952,954,960],{"type":439,"value":953},"Then pick a different story. This answer needs an outcome that shifted at least partly because of you. A moment where nothing moved, or where you were overruled, belongs in ",{"type":434,"tag":625,"props":955,"children":957},{"href":956},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftell-me-about-a-time-you-failed-internship-interview",[958],{"type":439,"value":959},"the \"tell me about a time you failed\" answer",{"type":439,"value":961},", not here.",{"type":434,"tag":963,"props":964,"children":965},"hr",{},[],{"type":434,"tag":435,"props":967,"children":968},{},[969,971,977,979,985],{"type":439,"value":970},"Today, pick one moment where you moved a group with no title to make them. Write the other person's original view in one honest sentence, the fair version, not the villain version. 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