The gap between a good CV and a good interview answer.
A CV can say you led a project. An interviewer will ask what made it difficult, what you did when the plan changed and what the result was. Most weak answers fail there: they stay too high-level, give the team’s actions instead of the candidate’s, or spend too long on background.
How the preparation works
We start with your target role and a shortlist of real experiences. We then build six to eight flexible stories, rather than memorising a response to every possible question. Each story is tested against likely follow-up questions.
- Success and delivery under pressure;
- A failure, mistake or setback, and what you changed afterwards;
- Leadership, influence and conflict with a stakeholder or colleague;
- Collaboration, judgement and problem-solving;
- Motivational answers: “Tell me about yourself”, “Why this company?” and “Why this role?”.
What STAR means in practice
STAR is a way to keep an answer readable. You give the context, define your responsibility, spend most of the answer on your actions and close with a result or lesson. The objective is not a polished monologue. It is an answer you can adapt when an interviewer asks a different question or challenges a detail.
You bring your experience. I help you choose the evidence, structure it and practise saying it in a way that is specific, credible and natural.
What this coaching does not cover
The focus is behavioural and motivational interview preparation. I do not teach coding, technical assessments or consulting case interview content. If the interview includes both elements, we can prepare the behavioural side properly and be clear about the boundary.