The Story Bank
How to build and tell the eight or so stories that answer every behavioural question you'll get.
5 topics
STAR, and How It Fails
STAR is a good skeleton and a terrible script — the situation should take fifteen seconds and the result is the part everyone forgets.
core15 minBuilding the Story Bank
Eight to ten real stories, written down once and indexed by signal, cover essentially every behavioural question you'll be asked.
core20 minChoosing and Tailoring a Story
Pick by the signal the question is hunting for, not by which project you're proudest of, and reframe the same story for different rounds.
core15 minQuantifying Impact
A number turns a claim into evidence, and an honest small number beats an impressive one you can't defend.
core15 minI Versus We
Interviewers can only hire you, so a story told entirely in "we" gives them nothing to rate — but pure "I" reads as someone who doesn't work well with others.
core12 min