Research the opportunity. Build your interview plan.

This changes the practical checklist in your toolkit.

The toolkit will prioritise the most useful actions for the time available.

Choose every area that would help. You can select more than one.

Select at least one area for your toolkit.

These details will personalise the research prompts and finished PDF. Only the role or course is required.

This prevents the toolkit from telling you to start again when you already have useful material.

Keep it open in another tab. You will use it to answer the next short questions.

Copy and paste the advert, person specification or relevant course information. You can also type the important parts manually.

Do not paste private account details, application reference numbers or confidential information.

Look for headings such as “essential”, “desirable”, “you will need” or “the successful candidate”. Copy the wording where helpful.

Find the main duties, responsibilities, learning activities or outcomes. Focus on what you may be asked about at interview.

Use its official website. Look at the About page, services, customers or communities, current priorities and recent work.

Connect your answer to the actual role or course, not only to needing a job or place.

Pick one requirement from the advert, then record a real example that proves it.

Use a different skill or quality where possible. Evidence can come from school, work, projects, home, sport, volunteering or hobbies.

A third example gives you choices if the interviewer asks something unexpected.

Use the duties and requirements. Turn each important point into a question, then note the evidence you could use.

Choose questions that help you understand the opportunity and show genuine interest. Avoid asking for information already clear in the advert.

Plan the practical details now so you can focus on answering well.