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Job Interview Preparation

Company research, a bank of tested stories, mock interviews and debriefs, technical and case practice, and a plan for every round from the recruiter screen to the final on-site.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Job Interview Preparation, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Job Interview Preparation

Preparing for interviews with company research, structured answers, case studies, technical practice and thoughtful questions.

  1. Interview readiness audit and target role brief
  2. Decoding the job description into likely questions
  3. Company research dossier for each interview
  4. Mapping the interview process and format
  5. Bank of ten STAR stories from your own work
  6. Two-minute answer to tell me about yourself
  7. Why this company and why this role answers
  8. Remote interview setup and technology check
  9. Interview day kit and logistics plan
  10. Weekly mock interview with a practice partner
  11. Recording and reviewing your practice answers
  12. Post-interview debrief log
  13. Interview question bank with prepared outlines
  14. Daily coding practice routine for engineers
  15. Industry and company news watch during a search
  16. Quarterly refresh of your interview stories
  17. Thank-you notes and follow-up after each interview
  18. Pre-interview warm-up and nerves routine
  19. Behavioural interview method in depth
  20. Competency-based interviews and frameworks
  21. Answering weakness, failure and conflict questions
  22. Explaining gaps, short stints and redundancy in interviews
  23. Case interview fundamentals
  24. Data structures and algorithms refresher
  25. System design interview preparation
  26. Voice, pace and presence on camera and in person
  27. Sharp questions to ask at the end
  28. Fixing your weakest answer type from feedback
  29. Cutting rambling answers to two minutes
  30. Choosing mock interview platforms or paid coaching
  31. Asking for feedback after a rejection
  32. Take-home assignment strategy and write-up
  33. Presentation interview on a set topic
  34. Psychometric and online assessment practice
  35. First-round phone screen with the recruiter
  36. One-way recorded video interview
  37. Panel interview preparation
  38. Final round or on-site day preparation
  39. Technical interview loop for a software role
  40. Informal chats and team meet-and-greets
  41. First ever job interview for students
  42. Turning coursework and projects into interview evidence
  43. Interviewing while still employed
  44. Interviewing in a second language
  45. Interview practice after a long tenure
  46. Requesting interview adjustments for disability or neurodivergence
  47. Interviewing for your first people management role
  48. Senior and staff engineer interview signals
  49. Values-based and bar-raiser interviews
  50. Sitting on hiring panels to sharpen your own interviewing

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Interview readiness audit and target role brief

Most people start preparing the night before, for whichever interview landed first, and discover too late that they cannot explain why they want the job. A one-page brief naming the roles you are targeting, the three strengths you want every interviewer to remember and the questions you dread gives every later project a direction.

First tasks

  • Write down the role titles and level you are interviewing for
  • Pick three strengths and note one piece of evidence for each
  • List the five interview questions you would least like to answer
  • Rate your readiness for behavioural, technical and motivation questions

Decoding the job description into likely questions

Interviewers usually build their questions straight from the job description and the scorecard behind it, so the advert is the closest thing to an exam paper you will get. Breaking it into requirements and turning each into the question it implies tells you which stories you need and which gaps you must address before the day.

First tasks

  • Copy the job description into a document and split it into single requirements
  • Ask the agent to turn each requirement into two likely interview questions
  • Match one of your examples to each essential requirement
  • Mark the two requirements where your evidence is thinnest

Company research dossier for each interview

Interviewers can tell within a minute whether a candidate has read only the homepage. A short dossier per company covering what it sells, how it makes money, recent news, competitors and the people you will meet lets you tailor answers and ask questions nobody else asks.

First tasks

  • Read the company's latest annual report or investor page summary
  • Note three recent news items with their dates
  • Look up each named interviewer's role and background
  • Write three talking points that link the company to your experience

Make it yours.

Install Job Interview Preparation, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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