95% of candidates fail building a proper story bank, by their own standards. Helping thousands to land jobs since 2017, I came across many high performers with some amazing stories to share.
Over time, I came up with a formula based on behavioral competencies (e.g. conflict resolution, data driven decision making) and commonly asked questions (e.g. Tell me about yourself, a time when you failed), to help you interview like an insider, as quickly as possible.
Anyone can learn behavioral interviews.
What no one’s telling you is the amount of time it takes to actually become good at this, and how much the bar has been raised, in the age of AI.
If everyone could do it, no high performing organization would still use behavioral interviews so extensively.
Your interviews will include competency-based questions (up to 50% for technical roles, up to 90% for non-tech). NVIDIA's core values
blend well with the training program:
NVIDIA's Corporate Values mapped to key sections in the training program
Innovation: pitched as “Willingness to take risk” (customer opportunities - meaningfully better); risk (too much / responsible): process 3 things: pilot in command in every project, how many risks; reviewing all along the way;
Intellectual honesty: “Self critical” analyzing & admitting to mistakes, and to improve; getting the right answer vs being right all the time;
“It’s not okay to attack people” -> Conflict & Influence (first + second section)
“Self critical” analyzing & admitting to mistakes -> Failure questions
Excellence: very best; top talent; (VP of operations); rather very unique product that very special people buy vs. “everyone”;
Excellence means different things to different roles. (e.g. for a VP of operations it means they’d rather build a very unique product that very special people buy vs. something “everyone” could use)
Interview question: “Tell me about a time when a product / service was already getting good customer feedback, but you decided to improve”; people with low standard will talk about a bug they fixed while people with high standards will speak about how they delighted a customer;
Willingness to take risk → Ambiguity & Prioritization
Customer Opportunities → Customer Obsession
Innovation → Learning & Innovation
Speed and agility
The world is moving fast → Prioritization & Speed
Agility & Efficiency → Deliver Results
Intellectual honesty
It’s not okay to attack people → Conflict & Influence
Self critical → Failure questions
Excellence → High Standards, Customer Obsession
One team: together. → Conflict & Influence
Selling interview training programs since 2019, I invested thousands of hours to deliver high quality insight without the fluff: the entire training program is under 3 hours.
Most sections are 10 minutes or less. I used AI to optimize its flow and structure while preserving the original, human stories.
p.s. I also include assessments & quizzes, a stories dashboard to experiment using AI reports, the ability to predict your upcoming interview questions and more.