Job targets
Keep one job's rounds together, see which of its requirements your own material shows, and tell the same stories in every round.
A job target is one job you apply for: its company, role and job description, the resume you use for it, and every round of it. It is a group of the interview type, so its rounds share its material and each one builds on the last. Open Groups at the top of Meetings: the job targets come first, each with its stage, its next round and how many of its requirements your material shows.
A new job target
On Groups, choose New group and the type Interview. Paste the job posting’s address under Job posting: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and most career pages fill in the company, role, location and job description. You can also write them in yourself; Target role suggests job titles, and choosing one sets the interview’s field. Your newest resume is chosen; change it under Details.
An interview on New meeting filled from a job posting, outside any target, starts a job target when you create it, with the interview as its first round.
The first screen
Overview shows what to do before the next round:
- Next round: when it is, whether it is prepared, Open preparation, and Mock interview, which sets up a mock interview of that round on Practice (of the job itself while no round is planned).
- What to prepare: the questions for the requirements your material shows least, and the directions the interviewers took in earlier rounds.
- Strengths, To improve and From the interviewers: requirements with strong evidence, what reviews and practice found, what the interviewers focused on or doubted, and what you promised them. Tick a promise off once it is done.
Under them, Rounds lists the job’s interviews in time order, each with its state and whether it is prepared; a rehearsal of a round shows there as practice once it has started. The stage at the top (preparing, interviewing, offer, ended) is yours to change.
Requirements and evidence
Read the requirements and find evidence lists the job’s main requirements from its description and, for each one, quotes your resume, the projects added to the target, the answers you keep in the question bank and what you said in earlier rounds. Each requirement shows Strong evidence, Weak evidence or No evidence, and a gap comes with the question to prepare. A quote counts only when its exact words are found in your material.
The reading is a paid request to a low-cost model; the button shows the most it can cost, and a reading costs well under one US cent. Where you start it, the page says what it needs first (the job description, or a resume or project to write stories from) with the way to add it, then what it reads and how long it has taken, and what it found or why it failed. After the job description changes, Read again from the new description; after adding material, Check the evidence again. You can correct a requirement, its importance, its question or the question’s kind, remove it, or add one the description leaves out. Your changes stay when the requirements are read again.
Each question to prepare also goes into the question bank, under the job target’s name, the one place your questions are kept. Write your answer opens it there, and This job’s questions in the question bank lists them all. An answer you write there counts as evidence the next time the evidence is checked. The questions stay in the bank, with your answers, when a requirement gains strong evidence or is removed.
Stories
Stories are experiences you can tell in an interview, each as situation, task, action and result, with the kinds of question it answers and the requirements it shows. Write stories from your material writes them from your resume, projects and answers, each resting on quotes found there; a detail your material does not give is written in square brackets for you to confirm. Write a story yourself adds your own, and every story can be edited. Your stories serve every job: each job target sees them and links them to its own requirements.
Rounds and their preparation
New round opens New meeting with the target chosen, so only the round (recruiter screening, technical, behavioral and so on) and its time are left to pick. On New meeting, an interview’s Job target field does the same for any interview.
Preparing a round reads its target: the requirements with their evidence, your stories, what earlier rounds showed, the question bank’s questions for that kind of round, and the questions prepared for the job’s other rounds, which it prepares again only when this round is likely to ask them. During the round, live answers tell your stories and bring out the evidence a question tests.
Coding agents see a job target with the interview group: its stage, posting, rounds, requirements and stories.