The STARR method. Properly Done.

you know what STARR stands for. so does everyone else applying for the same role. the gap is never the framework — it's that nobody shows you what a bad story actually looks like next to a good one, so you keep polishing the wrong thing.

i built this after years of being technically prepared and still faffing my way through follow-up questions i should've seen coming. so i sat down and did it properly — stress-tested every story i had until the ones that just sounded impressive fell apart, and the ones that were actually true held up.

this isn't another "here's what the acronym means" post. it's the worked version: a genuinely bad first draft next to the fixed one, for eight different competencies — influence, conflict, failure, ambiguity, leadership, data, stakeholders, pressure. plus the one thing almost nobody preps — the follow-up challenge that comes after your answer, and what to actually say to it.

if you've got an interview coming up, or you just want to stop sounding vague when someone asks you to "tell me about a time you—", this is the thing to read tonight, not the morning of.