{"id":"study2-star-story-conflict-template","audience":"job-seekers","category":"career","technique":"format","track":"study","level":"advanced","title":"Shape rough notes into a STAR answer about conflict","free":false,"task":"Your interview prep question is 'Tell me about a time you handled conflict.' From your notes, get exactly four lines starting Situation:, Task:, Action: and Result:, first person, one sentence each under 22 words, plain text, using only facts from your notes and the corrected number.","materialLabel":"Your rough notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MY NOTES - cafe job, last summer\n\nWorked at Juniper Cafe as a barista. Two coworkers kept skipping the closing shift, and the rest of us ended up staying late. People got angry and a couple of us stopped talking to each other.\nI'm not the manager, but I said something at a team meeting. I asked everyone to write down which nights they could close.\nI built a simple rota on a shared sheet with the five of us and checked it with Ms. Ortega, the manager, before posting it.\nAfter that, late closes dropped from about 6 a month to 1 a month. (Wait, Ms. Ortega's email said 2. Use her number.)\nAlso: I always order an oat latte, and I'm good at latte art.\n\nInterview is Thursday. They said the answer should be about 30 seconds.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the wrong number","why":"Your notes contain 1 and 2; only one is right.","fix":"Add: \"Use 2 a month, per Ms. Ortega's email.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not first person","why":"The AI describes 'the employee' or 'the team'.","fix":"Say: \"First person: I did...\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Loose shape","why":"Without exact labels you get a paragraph.","fix":"Say: \"Four lines: Situation:, Task:, Action:, Result:, one sentence each.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold and headings that show up as stray symbols.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the four labels","patterns":["situation.{0,30}task.{0,30}action.{0,30}result"]},{"label":"Says first person","patterns":["first person","\\bI\\b.{0,10}did"]},{"label":"Limits each line","patterns":["one sentence","under \\d+","\\d+\\s*words"]},{"label":"Uses the correct number","patterns":["\\b2\\b.{0,15}(a|per) month","ortega","correct"]},{"label":"Cuts irrelevant details","patterns":["(leave out|skip|cut|ignore|only).{0,30}(irrelevant|latte|coffee|facts)"]}],"hint":"STAR is a fixed shape. Give the four labels, first person, one sentence each, and say which number is right.","mission":"Turn rough notes into a clean interview answer.","musts":["Four STAR lines","First person","Use 2 a month"],"rubricLabels":["Has exactly four lines starting Situation:, Task:, Action: and Result:, in that order, one sentence each","Is written in first person and the Action line says the speaker built or posted a rota (not that the team or manager did it)","The Result says late closes fell from about 6 a month to 2 a month (not 1), and the latte order and latte art are left out"]}