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Firstly, have 3-4 stories about general work situations. So you can pick these up from your projects/teams you worked with/clients/etc..
Secondly, find the most common behavioral interview questions eg - time you had to work with a difficult person/change someone’s mind/had an impact
Thirdly, tie your story to each one of these questions. Most people would tell you to use the STAR method but honestly what I’ve seen is they just want a good structure.
Example of a general work story: Worked in a team of 3 to deliver a cloud solution to a retail client. The lead from client side was difficult to work with.
Behavioral question 1: A time when you had to deal with someone difficult
Behavioral answer 1: In one of my projects I was working closely with a senior technical manager for a retail client to deliver a cloud solution. Initially things were going well, but as the project progressed the technical manager would always change ideas and processes last minute. This was going to mess with the timelines, so I decided to have a mini workshop before starting a new work cycle to understand what they wanted exactly. This allowed us to save time by having less ideas being changed last minute
Behavioral question 2: A time you had to work with a team to achieve a common goal
Behavioral answer 2: During my last project, a cloud solution for a retail client I was in a team of three to deliver the project. It was a pretty large scale project and we have to interview multiple stakeholders. First thing we did was visualize a plan to distribute various tasks based on our strengths and set up weekly touch points to go over what we achieved + what we had to achiever in the coming week. We were able to tackle most problems before it reached a critical stage and made sure no one was over burdened by the workload
Note: You see how you can tie 1 general story to multiple questions? That’s one way to go about it instead of trying to come up with a lot of work stories for each question. Also DM me if you need anymore help!
Prep for most common questions and practice answers in front of a mirror. You can find some specific ones on glassdoor occassionally when looking up the role in the interview section. Also, be prepared to use the STAR method for examples and know your resume through this method.
I'm curious how others do it based on this advice...if you're prepping 4-5 stories, and you have interviews with say, 4 people...do you reuse these scenarios across multiple people and just tailor it to their specific ask?
Pretty much yes, because in these interviews it’s less likely they will ask the same behavioral question in All 3-4 interviews. If they do ask the same question then at least you would be consistent with the response.
With regards to the story itself, yes you will tailor your story based on the ask. So basically, that one story you have may fit into 2-3 categories. The major thing you will do is highlight which part you will emphasize. So if your story consists of working in a new industry with two new junior teammate. Then you can answer the following questions with this one story
1) Tell me a time you had to learn something new/develop new skill in a short time frame
2) Mentored/coached a junior team member
3) led a team
So depending on which question is asked you can use the same story and choose what to emphasize/omit/add. The main thing they are looking at is “The Issue” -> “How you handled it “-> “Outcome”