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Post-Interview Reflection & Continuous Improvement

What you do in the 15 minutes after each interview round determines how much you improve before the next one. Most candidates do nothing structured: they replay the rough moments in their head, decide they bombed (often inaccurately), and walk into the next round either over-confident or demoralised. This lesson teaches a 15-minute structured reflection template you run after every round, regardless of how you think it went. It covers what was asked, where you felt strong, where you floundered, what story you should have told instead, and what story-bank gap this round revealed. It also covers how to avoid the demoralisation spiral after a tough round, how to update your story bank between rounds in the same loop, and how to debrief the full loop once it is over. As the closing lesson of the Foundations track, it loops back to the four sections (Interview Basics, Storytelling, Self-Presentation, Strategy) and forward-points to Track 2.

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