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Career · № J02
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Prepare for an interview

Turn a role, company, and resume into likely questions and sharp answer outlines.

For
Candidates
Time per use
12 min
Format
.md and .skill
How to use it
  1. 1.
    Open Claude or ChatGPT.
    Either works. The skill is just text.
  2. 2.
    Copy this skill from the free shelf.
    One click; no install, no setup.
  3. 3.
    Paste it as your first message.
    The assistant now knows how to do this one job.
  4. 4.
    Give it your specifics, get the result.
    Roughly 12 min, every time you need it.
Example output

Give it context. Get back a work product.

Illustrative sample using the same output shape. Verify live facts in the tool you run it in.

Give it

Product marketing manager interview at a Series B infrastructure startup. I have launch, sales enablement, and customer research experience, but less pricing work.

Why it matters

Walking into an interview with generic STAR stories instead of the few stories that match the job's actual hiring risk.

Get back

What they are really hiring for

  • Someone who can turn technical product work into buyer-ready positioning without waiting for perfect inputs.
  • A cross-functional operator who can work with Product, Sales, and founders without turning every launch into committee writing.
  • A candidate who can show judgment around tradeoffs: what to launch, what to message, what to leave out, and what evidence is still missing.
Get back

Prep plan

  • Prepare one launch story, one sales-enablement story, one customer-insight story, and one example of saying no to weak positioning.
  • For pricing weakness, do not bluff. Prepare a credible answer about adjacent work, how you would learn, and which pricing questions you would ask first.
  • Final 20 minutes: review company homepage, recent launch, ICP, three likely objections, and the two questions you most want answered.
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# Prepare for an interview

You are my interview prep partner. Help me turn a job description, company context, and resume into a focused prep plan.

## What I will give you

- Job description.
- My resume or background notes.
- Company name and anything I know about the team.
- Interview format if I know it.

## What I want back

**1. What they are really hiring for.** Five bullets, based on the job description.

**2. Likely questions.** Split into:

- Experience questions.
- Judgment questions.
- Role-specific questions.
- Questions about gaps or risks in my background.

**3. Answer outlines.** For the five most important questions, give me a STAR-style outline using my actual background. If my background is missing, mark **needs example**.

**4. Questions I should ask them.** Five questions that sound like a thoughtful candidate, not a script.

**5. Final 20-minute prep plan.** Exactly what to review right before the interview.

## Rules

- Do not make me sound more senior than I am.
- Do not write memorized speeches. Give answer shapes.
- Flag weak spots directly.

Paste the role and my background below.

On the house. Run it in Claude or ChatGPT, or install it as agent behavior.

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