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Job interviews
For a job interview you learn your pitch, your STAR examples, your own figures and the classic questions. Lumi asks them back until your answers come out clearly.
How to turn this subject into cards
Make one card per classic question, introduce yourself, your strengths, a failure, why this role, and one card per example from your career, in four lines, situation, task, action, result. Add your own figures, durations, team sizes, results, one value per card. The trap is reciting a learned answer and freezing at the first follow-up, so learn key points, not whole sentences. With Lumi you pull the example from memory before seeing it, then adapt it to the question asked. Revisit your cards at intervals that grow longer (Cepeda et al., 2006). Rehearse aloud in front of a mirror or with a friend before the day.
What you need to know by heart
- Your pitch, who you are, what you have done, what you want.
- Three or four examples in the STAR method.
- Your figures, durations, results, team sizes.
- Answers to classic questions, strengths, weaknesses, motivation.
- What you know about the company and the role, and your own questions.
How Lumi helps you remember it
You teach your cards to Lumi, pitch, examples, figures, classic questions. It forgets over time, like you do, then quizzes you right before you would forget. As the day of the interview approaches, the Mist settles over the answers you know less well and Lumi asks those first. You arrive with examples that come out clearly and figures that are right.
Example cards
Three cards the way you would write them, with the answer Lumi expects.
What does a STAR example contain?
A situation, a task, an action and a result.
How do you end an interview?
By asking your own questions about the role and the team.
How do you talk about your biggest weakness?
By naming a real weakness and what you are doing to improve it.
Example card
Try it, Lumi turns it into fill in the blank questions in your browser.
Job interviews · teach this card to Lumi
The STAR method describes a situation, a task, an action and a result. A pitch says who you are, what you have done and what you want in a few sentences. A figure on the result makes an example more credible. At the end of the interview you ask your own questions about the role.
Lumi’s question
The _____ method describes a situation, a task, an action and a result.
Pick the missing word
Answer right to light Lumi up
Its lamp fades when a fact slips away.
Frequently asked questions
- Should I learn my answers by heart?
- Learn the key points and the figures, not whole sentences. You then speak naturally and adapt to follow-up questions.
- How do I prepare for trick questions?
- Write them on cards with your example as the answer. Lumi asks them in a mixed order, as in a real interview.
- How many examples should I prepare?
- Three or four solid examples are enough to start, because the same example can answer several questions.
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Sources
- Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted, Rohrer (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks. A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3). doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354
Teach this to Lumi
Give Lumi your job interviews notes, it gives them back as questions at the right moment.