# NextPeer Interview Preparation Guide

## Week 1: Understand the role
- Read the job description and separate essential from optional requirements.
- Identify examples from your coursework, projects and experience.
- Practise a 60-second introduction using real details.

## Week 2: Practise core skills
- For coding roles: solve a few problems and explain correctness and complexity.
- For analytics roles: query a small dataset and interpret a chart.
- For business roles: work through a case and explain assumptions.
- Track mistakes and revisit the underlying concept.

## Week 3: Explain your projects
Answer: What problem did you solve? What did you build yourself? What failed? How did you test it? What would you improve?
Practise a two-minute overview and a deeper explanation of one feature.

## Week 4: Mock interviews and applications
- Practise one role-specific mock interview.
- Ask for feedback on clarity, reasoning and evidence.
- Check your resume links and application details.
- Record follow-up actions in an application tracker.

## Behavioural answer framework
Situation: relevant context.
Task: what you needed to achieve.
Action: what you personally did.
Result: what actually happened and what you learned.

## During the interview
Clarify the question, state assumptions, explain your approach and ask for a moment to think when needed. Say when you do not know; explain how you would investigate.

## Review sheet
Date:
Role:
Question:
What went well:
Knowledge gap:
Next practice task:

Preparation improves readiness; it does not guarantee selection.