Guides
Interview preparation guides
Everything between getting the interview invitation and walking into the room.
- Interview tomorrow? Here's what to do tonightWith one evening left, prepare in this order: read the job description properly, pick six experiences you can talk about, prepare your opening answer, prepare three questions to ask, and sort the logistics. Do not try to learn everything about the company.
- How to prepare for an interviewGood interview preparation is four things: understanding what the role is actually hiring for, choosing the evidence from your own experience that proves you can do it, rehearsing that evidence out loud, and preparing questions that show you have thought about the job.
- How to prepare for an interview in one dayIn a single day, work in four blocks of roughly an hour: decode the job description, build six pieces of evidence, write the three set-piece answers, then rehearse out loud and prepare your questions.
- Final interview preparationA final interview is usually about judgement, motivation and fit rather than whether you can do the job — that has normally been decided. Expect fewer, broader questions, more senior people, and more weight on why you want this role and how you think.
- Competency-based interviews, explainedA competency-based interview is a structured interview in which each question targets a named behaviour — teamwork, problem solving, resilience — and your answer is scored against that behaviour using evidence from things you have actually done.
- The STAR interview methodThe STAR method is an interview-answer structure consisting of Situation, Task, Action and Result. You describe the context briefly, what you were responsible for, what you personally did, and what happened as a consequence.