Interview Q&A Planner Notion Template Support Doc
This is a support document for my Interview Q&A Planner Notion Template. It’ll detail elements of the planner and how to best use it. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to hit the Request Support button to the right. 👉
The most common interview questions
I fielded the most common interview questions across a variety of hiring managers and recruiters to compile a brief yet comprehensively robust list of key questions that any job interviewee should contemplate.
Additionally, there are a few prompts for you to consider crafting professional anecdotes for that you may not get direct questions for, but you can sprinkle those extra details in to strengthen your overall responses.
All together, there are 13 questions / prompts in the Interview Q&A Planner — each equipped with a description of the intent behind the question, tips on answering it, and an example response to get started. It essentially expands off of this article, so you can take a peak at the content here.
❓ Question - Common questions that are likely to come up as you interview
💡 Prompt - Meant to help you generate word tracks that you can incorporate into your answers and be more holistically ready
Template on how to answer “Tell me about yourself” in the Interview Q&A Planner
Adding a new question
You’re more than welcome to add your own questions to this Interview Q&A Planner — especially those that are more specific to your field. When doing so, a brand new, blank page will give you the option to select a blank template if the new question doesn’t fit any of the templates available.
MAXIMIZE THE INTERVIEW Q&A PLANNER
Automatic Integration with the Job Hunt Organizer
The Job Hunt Organizer Notion Template lets you streamline all of your applications and interviews. Connect the responses planned in your Interview Q&A Planner into individual Interview pages, so you’ve got a curated selection of anecdotes and word tracks at your disposal to crush your interview. Complete the set!
The Interview Q&A responses assigned to that specific interview will appear in the Pre-Interview Prep area on the Interview’s page.
When interviewing for the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor position at Hogwarts, prep a few bullet points
ORGANIZING AND FILTERING RESPONSES
Tag or link responses to a specific role or interview
Whether you’re using the standalone Interview Q&A Planner or the one built into the Job Hunt Organizer, you can organize your planned responses to make it easier to filter and prep for before and during an interview.
The standalone Interview Q&A Planner
For each role or interview, create a new tag using the Role - Company property.
The default tag is “General Response” so you can prep a generic response.
The Job Hunt Organizer’s Interview Q&A Planner
Using the Interviews relation property, you can link to existing Interview pages from the Interviews database (or create a new one).
The Interviews page defaults to automatically filtering for your prepped responses assigned to that specific interview, so all of your pre and during interviewing prep is all in one place.
The Job Posting property will also automatically populate based on the Interviews database information. More automation. Like magic! ✨
Filter to focus on your upcoming interview
The Upcoming Interview Responses view on the Interview Q&A Planner page can filter responses based on which Role - Company they’re tagged with or the Interview page they’re linked to. You can use this view if you’re the type of person who likes to keep notes up on their screen during an interview for reference.
Try bolding, underlining, or highlighting the main points or reminder word tracks you’ve prepped to make it easier to cue yourself!
TAGS
Question types
The questions / prompts have all been assigned different types:
Common Q - A common interview question
Behavioral Q - A behavioral interview question, which can benefit from using the STAR method
Logistical Q - An interview question to learn about your availability, salary expectations, etc.
Illegal Q - Questions that you are not obligated to answer and how to approach them
Anecdote Prompt - A prompt to come up with a quick blurb that can help strengthen your interview responses