Starting April 2025, this purchase will contain two of my best trainig programs. The original Amazon Onsite Training Program (launched in 2021; 6.5 hours) which helped more than a few land jobs with Amazon. The second training is a more concise version of a behavioral interview training (3 hours).
Training 1: Advanced Behavioral Interviewing
Key sections
Videos
Easy to follow advice on how to best answer any non-technical interview question.
Stories
95% of candidates fail building a proper story bank, by their own standards. Go beyond (Google) docs or tabular (Excel) to build your story bank.
- Add, revise, rank or label your stories - using both quantitative & qualitative indicators (e.g. revisions to stories ratio)
- More than a dozen types of AI reports using 3 providers. (ChatGPT, Vertex, Cohere)
- Best practices and guidance at every step
Quizzes
Practice your listening skills and learn to think on your feet in job interviews.
- Practice identifying core behaviors in unfamiliar contexts
- Interviewing tips and tricks
- Statistics
Why buy this training
- Research backed interview prep. This content is biased towards benefiting the candidate, on what connects with success in job interviews, while saving you time from what doesn’t.
- Improve your listening skills and give them what they want to hear. Minimize risk of surprise by covering a broad range of behaviors and scenarios, specific to behavioral interviews.
- Refund policy. The training program is non-refundable, however, if you decide it's not for you, we can convert it to a coaching session at no additional cost.
Don’t buy this training
- If you are desperately looking for a job
- Cannot (or don’t want to) reason by analogy; some stories will be for mid-level roles while others will be for principal (advisory) roles, while others will be for sales. While it is true that many of these stories are from IT, I picked examples from a variety of industries and roles.
- DCR Solutions is 100% Romanian owned and operated by Dan Croitor
Training 2: Amazon Onsite Training Program
In its first version this was over 9 hours; to save you time, I compressed it to 6h30, in 43 sections. This is best consumed over the course of a few consecutive days.
My goal is to help you to improve your STAR answers using your best stories, in a 4 step process:
- Section one: reasoning by analogy will help you to quickly and accurately find relevant stories for each principle.
- Section two: general types of questions; outcome: your elevator pitch.
- In section three, I'm using the examples from section one, in order to highlight behaviors to use and to avoid in your own answers.
- Section four - more exercises to further improve the quality of your stories. Outcome: your stories, ready for the interview.
I perfectioned this method throughout the years, while helping & learning from some really smart people.
First, throughout my career, I've worked in both technical and non-technical roles.
Second. My experience coaching people for all major job categories has taught me an important lesson: anyone applying for such jobs should be able to qualify if an answer, including its depth, is for them. Some stories will be for mid-level roles while others will be for L7+ roles, while others will be for sales.
While it is true that many of these stories are from IT, I picked examples from a variety of industries.
from a candidate in Seattle - under Invent and Simplify
A side project of mine is to track potholes in the area by designing a reporting system using cameras mounted on garbage trucks; they would scan the road and using AI would find holes in the road, which would be reported to the city for review.