# HireTea Interview Prep Checklist

Use this worksheet before a phone screen, video interview, store interview, facility interview, or hiring-manager conversation.

## Interview Snapshot

- Company name:
- Role title:
- Location or remote status:
- Interview date and time:
- Interview format:
- Interview contact:
- Candidate portal or invite link:
- Current posting URL:
- Date you saved the posting:

## Manager Filter Notes

Open the HireTea company hub, interview prep page, role fit planner, and active posting. Write the filter the interviewer is likely trying to confirm.

- Availability, schedule, commute, or attendance filter:
- Customer, guest, patient, member, or client service filter:
- Pace, safety, accuracy, or physical readiness filter:
- Teamwork, handoff, communication, or trust filter:
- Role-specific tool, department, certification, or training filter:

## STAR Story Bank

Prepare short stories you can say out loud in under two minutes. Use real details from work, school, volunteering, family responsibility, projects, or informal work.

### Story 1: Reliability

- Situation:
- Task:
- Action:
- Result:
- What this proves for the role:
- Detail to avoid overstating:

### Story 2: Service Or Communication

- Situation:
- Task:
- Action:
- Result:
- What this proves for the role:
- Detail to avoid overstating:

### Story 3: Pace, Accuracy, Or Problem Solving

- Situation:
- Task:
- Action:
- Result:
- What this proves for the role:
- Detail to avoid overstating:

### Story 4: Learning, Training, Or Career Change

- Situation:
- Task:
- Action:
- Result:
- What this proves for the role:
- Detail to avoid overstating:

## Answers To Prepare

- Why this role:
- Why this company or location:
- Availability answer:
- Commute or start-time answer:
- Prior work or no-experience bridge:
- Career-change bridge, if relevant:
- Employment-gap explanation, if relevant:
- Pay or schedule question to ask:
- Training, first-week, or document question to ask:

## Before The Interview

- Reopen the active posting and confirm the title, location, schedule, and pay language.
- Save the interview invite, contact name, time zone, and access link.
- Check whether the employer asked for documents, portfolio items, references, or work samples.
- Prepare one question about the actual role, one question about schedule or training, and one question about next steps.
- Keep personal notes local. Do not send private identifiers unless the employer asks through an official channel.

## After The Interview

- Record who you spoke with, what changed, and what the next step should be.
- Save any portal status, recruiter email, text message, or offer instruction.
- Use the HireTea thank-you note planner before sending a follow-up.
- Update the application tracker with the interview date, follow-up date, status, and evidence saved.

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