Telling the Story
Your experience is the easy part. Getting it across in two minutes is the skill.
5 lessons · ~47 min · free
By the end you can
- Know what a behavioral answer is evidence of, from the interviewer's chair
- Use the STAR shape without sounding like you memorized an acronym
- Replace generic claims with numbers, constraints, and named decisions
- Build a story bank that covers most questions with six to eight stories
- Land answers in about two minutes and handle follow-ups without rambling
Lessons
- 1What your answer is evidence of8 minThe interviewer's rubric: what a story about the past predicts, and the failure modes that sink answers.
- 2The shape of a strong answer10 minSituation fast, action heavy, result concrete: STAR as proportions, not a script.
- 3Specifics are the currency10 minNumbers, constraints, and named decisions: the difference between claims and evidence.
- 4Six stories cover everything11 minPre-building a story bank and mapping each story to the question families it can answer.
- 5Two minutes, then stop8 minLength discipline, pausing, and treating follow-ups as invitations instead of objections.
Practice it after
Keep drilling questions in practice once the lessons are done.
Practice behavioral questions