Getting the interview and not knowing how to tell your story.

Why an interview that was going well falls apart

I've been on the other side of the table in more than 800 selection processes. Most of the time, the person who doesn't move to the next round isn't the one with less experience: it's the one who tells it worse.

Rambling answers, examples with no ending, team achievements told in the plural when the question was what you did. None of that is fixed with more confidence: it's fixed with preparation.

The STAR method, demystified

Almost every behavioural question ("tell me about a time when…") is answered well with the same four-part structure:

1. Situation Where you were and what was happening. Two sentences, not two minutes.
2. Task What was specifically yours to do. This is where your work is told apart from your team's.
3. Action What you did. In the first person singular, even if it feels uncomfortable.
4. Result How it ended, with the number if there is one. An example without an ending convinces nobody.

The hard part isn't understanding the structure: it's having your own examples ready in advance, and having them sound like you rather than like a template.

How we work on it

Interviews are the third stage of the 1:1 mentoring. We build your professional narrative with real STAR examples drawn from your own experience, and close with a mock interview and direct feedback — the kind of feedback an interviewer will never give you.

We can work in Spanish or English. If you're aiming at an international role, the mock interview happens in the language you'll actually interview in.

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