In this masterclass I teach you how to use the stories of your accomplishments – whether you’re a product manager now or going to be – in your job interviews. (These ideas are applicable to anyone, whatever you do or want to do!)
Overview
- Why are stories your most powerful tool in job interviews?
- How do you turn your accomplishments into great stories?
- All the tools and techniques you can use to make your stories exciting (and not boring!)
- Bonus: How to use storytelling techniques common in feature films to ramp your stories up even more!
Tell Your Story Master Class
Putting Yourself In The Hiring Manager's Shoes
Welcome to the course! In this short video I share the key theme or fundamental goal of the course, and a quick outline of what we'll cover in the rest of the course.
At the end of the course you will have the tools, knowledge, and framework to tell your best stories more effectively than you ever have.
We're all unicorns, but even so, we have competition from other unicorns for the same jobs.
It's actually well-known that the BEST way to hire is to bring someone in on a temporary basis and then decide, based on their performance, if you should hire them. That is, it's the best way to determine if a candidate is actually a good hire. Of course, this is time-consuming and costly and most companies don't enable this.
Instead, the hiring manager needs to depend on the interview process to find the best candidate. Their best way of understanding you is to understand what you've done in challenging situations. And that's where your stories come in.
Story = Structure + Content
What I teach in this course will not win you an Oscar (unless you take it a LONG way and work really hard and have a ton of luck), but you'll know more than 97% of people about how to tell a good story.There's a structure, and there's the content.In this lesson - the structure.
Finding Your Own Great Content - and Structuring It
Good story content must satisfy three simple rules - they'll be obvious once you see them.
Using an example from my own experience, I show how to apply these ideas to turn a good story about a success I was involved with into a great story about a transformation I enabled.
We all have to start somewhere. In this lesson, some guidance on which story to tackle first with the new tools I've provided, plus how to get started applying them. I also provide ideas for building out your repertoire of stories for interviews.
In this lesson I provide several advanced ideas you can start using right away to make your use of stories - and your stories themselves - more powerful.I always say "Every bullet in your resume should tell a story." OK, maybe not every one, but here's how to get started using your stories to make your resume bullets more powerful.And I share two great storytelling tricks you see all the time in movies - and that you can use - to amazing effect - in your own stories.
Although I have a lot of great experience, my job search results were somewhat lackluster. I’d get interviews, but then stumble on how to relate my experience to the interviewer’s questions. Then, I found Nils’ storytelling course, and using his frameworks, I created a story for each one of the accomplishments on my resume. My results have improved dramatically! In interviews I now have an engaging story ready for just about every “tell me about a time you…” question, and I’ve got second and third interviews lined up with some great companies. This course could easily pay off 1000x.