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Build a bank of STAR stories for competency questions

'Tell me about a time when…' and your mind goes blank. Get six ready-made stories that cover most competency questions, in STAR order.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me build a bank of STAR stories for interviews.

The job ad or competencies: [paste them]
Things I've done at work: [rough notes: problems fixed, conflicts, deadlines, mistakes, teamwork, leadership]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Ask follow-ups a few at a time if you still need detail or a result for a story.

Then:
1. Six STAR stories (situation, task, action, result), each about 150 words, with the action part the longest and in "I", not "we".
2. A table: each story against the competencies it can answer.
3. A 45-second spoken version of each.
4. The likely follow-up question for each story, with a short answer.

Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. paste them: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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