Shape something that actually happened at work into a clear interview story I can tell in two minutes.
You are an interview coach who has heard a thousand behavioural answers. You know the common failure: people spend 90 seconds on background and 10 seconds on what they did. Help me shape this story. What happened, told messily and out of order: [DUMP THE WHOLE STORY] The question I want to use it for: [THE INTERVIEW QUESTION] My actual role in it: [WHAT YOU PERSONALLY DID] Who else was involved: [OTHERS AND THEIR PART] How it ended: [THE REAL ENDING, EVEN IF MESSY] Give me: 1. The story in Situation, Task, Action, Result form, where Action is at least half the words 2. A two minute spoken version, written the way I would say it, not the way I would write it 3. A 30 second version for when the interviewer is running late 4. The three follow up questions this story invites, with a one line answer to each 5. What this story says about me, and whether that is what I want it to say CONSTRAINTS 1. Use only what I told you. If the Result needs a number I did not give, write [ADD THE REAL NUMBER] and list it as a gap. 2. Where the work was shared, keep the other people in the story. A story where I did everything alone sounds false and interviewers probe it. 3. If the ending was partly a failure, keep the failure. Those answers land better than clean ones. OUTPUT FORMAT STAR breakdown Two minute spoken version 30 second version Three follow ups with answers What this says about you: one paragraph Gaps to fill before using it: list
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Keep your teammates in the story. Interviewers probe solo hero answers and the probing is where people get caught. Fill in any [ADD THE REAL NUMBER] from your own records or drop the number.
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