The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You need concrete STAR stories for behavioral questions built from things you actually did.
- {{experience_notes}}
- {{resume}}
- {{job_posting}}
- {{story_count}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Help me prepare stories for behavioral interview questions ("Tell me about a time..."), built only from things I actually did. I am interviewing for the job in the posting below, and I want stories I can tell in about two minutes each.
My notes on situations from my work (rough is fine):
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{{experience_notes}}
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My resume:
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{{resume}}
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The job posting:
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{{job_posting}}
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Task:
1. Turn my notes into {{story_count}} stories in the STAR form: Situation (two sentences of context), Task (what I was responsible for), Action (what I did, step by step, in the first person), Result (what happened, with figures only if my notes give them, and what I learned if it went badly). Keep each story to 200 to 300 words, about two minutes spoken.
2. Give each story a short title and the question themes it answers, such as conflict, a mistake, leading without authority, a tight deadline, a difficult stakeholder, or a decision made with incomplete information.
3. Then a table with the columns Question theme, Best story, Backup story, covering those themes plus the main requirements in the posting.
4. Then "Gaps": themes or requirements with no story, each with two or three questions to jog my memory.
Rules:
- Use only what is in my notes and resume. Do not invent details, dialogue, numbers or outcomes. If part of a story is missing, put a bracketed question in its place, such as [what was the result?].
- Separate what I did from what the team did. Interviewers listen for "I", so the Action must be my own actions.
- Spend most of each story on the Action and keep the Situation short.
- If a story names a client, a colleague or confidential figures, describe them in general terms, for example "a large retail client", and say that you did.
If a note is too thin to make a full story, do not guess at the missing parts: list it under "Needs more detail" with the questions that would complete it.
Variables
- {{experience_notes}}
- Rough notes on situations you handled: projects, problems, conflicts, mistakes, wins. A few lines each is enough.
- {{resume}}
- Your resume, pasted as plain text.
- {{job_posting}}
- The job posting for the interview.
- {{story_count}}
- How many stories you want, for example 6.
Why it works
- Format. The STAR shape plus a table of question themes gives you stories you can reuse for several questions, which is how experienced candidates prepare.
- What to avoid. Missing parts become bracketed questions instead of invented outcomes, and the Action stays in your own "I", which is what interviewers listen for.
- If unsure. Thin notes go to a "Needs more detail" list with questions, so you fill the gap from memory rather than from the model's imagination.