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.
Showing Marcus’s completed card as a worked example. Your own cards are safe below it and come back untouched when you hide the example. Examples don’t print.
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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