Story time! I am prepping for interviews and struggling to come up with stories. I’m coming into consulting from a healthcare background and I want to come up with something around working collaboratively and with systems-level thinking. I feel like so far my stories are too technical and clinical (boring!).
Any creative ways folks came up with stories to share? What made the best stories you’ve heard the best? I know I can be simple, doesn’t have to be “and that’s how I saved the company.”

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Tbh for behavioral questions I make stuff up. Usually I take a real experience that happened to me but then change some details so that it fits to the question and tell interviewers what they want to hear

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Thanks D1!!! I like that, especially playing to others’ strengths.

Make a spreadsheet with the main types of questions then tailor 3-5 good stories to each of those main themes

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Thanks! Yes I have three themes I wanted to flesh out. I like the idea of a spreadsheet

Go through your resume and come up with stories or things you learned from each job experience

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