Interview Preparation That Fits the Job You Applied For

Predict the questions from the listing

Each requirement on the listing is a question waiting to be asked. 'Experience managing competing priorities' becomes 'tell me about a time you had to manage competing priorities'.

Write the five most likely questions before you prepare anything else.

Build four stories, not twenty answers

Most behavioural questions can be answered from four well-chosen experiences: something you fixed, something you delivered under pressure, something you got wrong, and something you did with other people.

Know each one well enough to reshape it to the question rather than reciting it.

Prepare the questions you will ask

Ask about how the work is actually done — how decisions get made, what the first ninety days look like, what has made previous people in the role successful or unhappy.

These also tell you whether you want the job.

Rehearse out loud once

Saying an answer aloud exposes the parts that only work on paper. One run-through is usually enough to find them.