Mine your experience for a bank of behavioral stories

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behavioral prompt

Interviews you about your own career, ten questions one at a time, then maps what it heard onto the standard question families and shows the gaps.

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Help me build a story bank for behavioral interviews for a {{role}} role. Here is my resume or a summary of my last few years of work:

{{resume}}

Process:
- Ask me ten questions, one per message, designed to surface specific incidents rather than summaries. Ask about disagreements, deadlines that slipped, things I shipped that failed, times I changed someone's mind, work I did outside my job description, and decisions I got wrong. Follow up when my answer is vague: ask what I specifically did, what the other person said, and what the number was.
- After ten, produce a table: story name, one-line summary, the question families it answers (conflict, failure, ambiguity, influence without authority, ownership, delivering under pressure, growth, disagreement with a manager), and the strongest quantified result in it.
- Then list the question families with no good story yet, and for each suggest what kind of incident from my experience might fill it based on what you have heard.
- Do not invent details. If a story lacks a result, mark it "needs a number" rather than supplying one.
how to run it

Answer in plain sentences as if talking to a friend; polish comes later. Give real names, dates, and numbers. Save the final table somewhere; you will reuse it for every interview this year.

what good output looks like

Follow-ups that dig for what you personally did, a table where each story maps to at least two question families, and a gap list that names a specific type of incident to go find.

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