Step 3 of 3 · Résumé Studio

The companions

Interview prep and the application tracker

A résumé is one of five things the Studio makes. These two are the ones that carry on after you send it. Both are shown here exactly as a student sees them on day one, because these are the same sample panels the empty surfaces themselves draw.

Walk in with your answers ready.

Pick a target role and the Studio writes the questions you are likely to face, then drafts each answer from your own experience and reads it back to say what is thin.

Example

This is what one question looks like. Yours come from your own résumé.

Behavioral

1. Tell me about a time you used data to change what a team was doing.

Answer it with one project you can describe end to end.

STAR answer

  • SSituationWhere you were and what was going on. One sentence.
  • TTaskWhat you were responsible for in it.
  • AActionWhat you actually did, in order, with the tools you used.
  • RResultHow it came out, with a number wherever you have one.

The Studio drafts each answer in this shape from your own experience, then reads it back and tells you what is thin.

Know where every application stands.

Paste a listing and the Studio reads it, scores how well your résumé fits, and keeps it on the board with the version you actually sent attached to it.

Example

This is the board with one job on it. Nothing here is saved.

Saved0
Applied1

A company you applied to

The role, as the listing names it

82

How well your résumé matches this listing, out of 100.

Interviewing0
Offer0
Rejected0
Withdrawn0

Every job you save sits in one of these six stages. Move a card along as you hear back, and the Studio keeps the résumé you sent attached to it.

Cover letters and LinkedIn work the same way: they start from a résumé you have already written and the job you are aiming at, so nothing asks you to retype your history a fourth time.