Personal template · 29 topics
Job interview preparation mind map template
A job interview prep mind map: research on the company and role, your stories for common questions, the questions you will ask, and the day's logistics.
Who it is for
- A job seeker with an interview booked in the next few days.
- A graduate preparing for a first round of competency interviews.
- Someone going for an internal promotion who wants their examples straight.
How to use it
- Open the template and write the company and role in the central topic.
- Read the job advert and pick the three skills it asks for most, then find a story for each.
- Say each story out loud once, cut it to two minutes, and keep the map open the night before.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Interview prep
- The company
- What it sells and to whom
- Recent news or launches
- Values it says it hires for
- The role
- Top three skills in the advert
- What the first six months would look like
- Who you would report to
- Your stories
- A problem you solved: situation, action, result
- A time you disagreed and how it ended
- A mistake and what you changed after
- Your biggest result, with a number
- Tricky questions
- Why are you leaving
- Your weakness, with what you are doing about it
- Salary expectations, with a range researched
- Your questions
- What does success look like in this role
- What is the team's biggest challenge now
- What happens after this interview
- Logistics
- Time, place or video link
- Route or tech checked the day before
- Copy of your CV and the advert
- Afterwards
- Thank-you note within a day
- Notes on what went well and what to fix
Take your maps to iPhone and iPad
MindmapPal for iPhone and iPad opens .xmind, OPML and Markdown files, works offline, and keeps every map as a file you own.
Join the waitlist
Coming soon to the App Store