Application materials · Level Starter · Job hunting Interview Introduction
Self-introduction: sixty seconds
The opening question and my answer becomes a chronology.
Prompt
One criterion: can a hiring manager tell in twenty seconds that you have done this job. Actions and results, never adjectives.
Task: The opening question and my answer becomes a chronology.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the role and my core fit
- most recent experience
- the one thing to stress
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- now, one most relevant example, why here
- one idea per sentence, no adjectives
- sixty seconds, memorable but not recited
- end with a hook they can follow up
[Process]
1. Read the job description and extract the three things they screen for
2. Rewrite each experience as context, my action, result
3. Delete unverifiable adjectives
4. Mirror their vocabulary without inventing
5. Name the weakest link
[Output]
Rewritten material, what was cut, what evidence is missing.
[Do not]
- Never invent experience or numbers
- No 'expert' or 'proficient'
- Never one resume for every role
- Do not present duties as achievementsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the role and my core fit
- most recent experience
- the one thing to stress
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- now, one most relevant example, why here
- one idea per sentence, no adjectives
- sixty seconds, memorable but not recited
- end with a hook they can follow up