Interview Gameplan: Prep Protocol — LifeSketch
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INTERVIEW GAMEPLAN: PREP PROTOCOL

Ninety minutes. Six steps. Prepared.

The Closing Kit
one card per interview

Preparation is not a feeling — it’s a procedure, and a procedure has steps, a time-box, and a finish line. Six steps, about ninety minutes, run inside a normal search block as a Mission Card — two days before the interview, never the night before. And here’s the relief: most of this work already exists. If this employer is on your Targeted Employer List, your research from earlier in the program is step one — this is assembly, not creation. One card per interview. When the card is full and you’ve said it out loud once, you are prepared — everything after that is the anxiety talking.

▸Interview tomorrow morning? Run the compressed version.
Forty minutes beats four anxious hours: their wants (10 min) → story map (15 min) → questions (5 min) → one out-loud pass (10 min). Skip nothing else; shrink everything. The finish line still applies.
▸My field’s center stage is a demo, case, portfolio, or working session.
Same protocol, one swap: step 4 becomes “prepare the performance” — same time-box discipline, using your field’s standard prep resources. Everything else on this card applies unchanged: the wants, the fit, your questions, the single rehearsal, and the finish line.
One card per interview event. Later rounds don’t start over — use “Copy forward” on the card.

When the card is full and you’ve said it out loud once — you are prepared. Close the laptop.

Run the full protocol once this week — for your next real interview, or a practice target from your Plan A list, so the machinery exists before it’s needed. Schedule it as a Mission Card inside a normal search block. Print the card the day before: your wants, your titles, and your questions come with you — scripts stay home.

THE CLOSING KIT — Close Map  ·  Story Bank  ·  Interview Gameplan: Prep Protocol (you are here)  ·  Game Day Kit  ·  Offer Scorecard  ·  Deal Sheet

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