Interview preparation
Story cards cut from your CV, mapped to common questions, with a practice mode.
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- STAR story bank: Situation, Task, Action and Result cards built from the achievement bullets in your CV. Nothing is invented.
- Template questions: Common interview questions mapped to story cards. No AI required.
- Ad-specific questions: Questions drawn from the ad. These need a Layer 2 or 3 model that you turn on, and they refer to terms in the ad.
- Practice mode: A question is shown, you write an answer, and the tool suggests the story card that fits best. The suggestion can be traced through shared words.
How does interview preparation turn my CV into STAR method stories?
Interview preparation builds a STAR story card from each achievement bullet in your CV, by fixed rules and without a model. Every slot on a card is a verbatim slice of your resume, and a slot the CV does not fill is marked “not in CV” instead of being written for you.
A bullet becomes a card when it has at least four words and an achievement signal: an achievement verb or a measurable figure such as a percentage. Shorter bullets and bullets without that signal are listed under the cards as skipped, with the reason, so you can see which lines to strengthen. Each card shows the CV line it came from and the topics it covers, such as testing, automation or leadership.
| Slot | Source in your CV |
|---|---|
| Situation | The role line the bullet stands under |
| Task | An explicit purpose phrase in the bullet, such as “in order to” or “so that” |
| Action | The activity part of the bullet |
| Result | The outcome clause, such as a figure or a “reduced” or “increased” phrase |
Which interview questions does it prepare me for?
Interview preparation maps 18 common interview questions to your story cards by shared topics, and can add questions drawn from the job ad when a model is turned on. The common questions work without any model.
The common questions cover four categories: behavioural, situational, technical and motivation. Each one lists up to three story cards; a card with a real result ranks above one without, and a more complete card breaks ties. A question no card can answer keeps an empty list rather than borrowing a story that does not fit. Ad-specific questions are generated from the top terms of the ad, and each must cite the exact term it targets; a question whose cited term is not among them is not shown.
Example: what does a story card and a practice match look like?
For a bullet like “Automated the regression suite with Playwright, reducing manual test time by 60%” under the role line “QA Automation Engineer, Nordwind Logistik”, interview preparation fills three of the four STAR slots and marks the Task slot as not in CV.
The Situation is the role line, the Action is “Automated the regression suite with Playwright” and the Result is “reducing manual test time by 60%”. The card is tagged with automation and testing, so it appears under questions such as “Describe a repetitive task you automated and what it changed.” In practice mode you type your own answer to a question. The tool then suggests the card that shares the most meaningful words with what you typed and shows those shared words, so the suggestion can be traced. If no card shares enough words, it says so instead of guessing.
What does interview preparation not do?
Interview preparation does not write your answers, does not invent a situation, task or result your CV lacks, and does not judge how good your practice answer is. It only points to the story in your CV that fits a question best.
The practice match counts shared words; it does not understand meaning, so an answer that uses different words for the same story may not find its card. Story cards depend on how your CV is written: a CV without bullets, or with bullets that carry no achievement verb or figure, yields few or no cards. Ad-specific questions need a model you turn on. Nothing here changes your ATS score, and none of it predicts how an interview will go.
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