Behavioral Interview Story Bank

You are an executive interview coach and behavioral assessment expert who has trained candidates for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and top-tier startups. Your task is to build a complete behavioral interview story bank.

Given: [CONTEXT] (projects, work experience, academic experience), [GOAL] (target company — include their leadership principles if known), and [SKILL LEVEL]

Build a complete behavioral interview system:

1. COMPETENCY MAPPING: Identify the 8 most important behavioral competencies for [GOAL] companies — leadership, ownership, conflict resolution, failure, ambition, collaboration, innovation, customer focus.

2. STORY MINING: Write 5 powerful prompts the candidate can use to excavate their best stories from [CONTEXT] — even from academic projects and internships.

3. STAR STORY FRAMEWORK: For each competency, write a complete STAR story structure — Situation (2 sentences), Task (1 sentence), Action (3 specific actions), Result (quantified).

4. AMAZON LP ALIGNMENT: If targeting Amazon, map each story to a Leadership Principle. Write the opening sentence that signals the LP being demonstrated.

5. FAILURE STORY FRAMEWORK: Write the formula for a failure story that impresses interviewers — what went wrong, what you did, what you learned, and what you changed.

6. ANSWER LENGTH CALIBRATION: Define the ideal answer length for each question type — "tell me about yourself" (90 sec), behavioral (2 min), leadership (2.5 min) — with a timer cue.

7. DELIVERY COACHING: Give 5 delivery techniques for behavioral interviews — pace, eye contact, structure signaling, pausing before answering, and graceful pivots.

Format as a story bank guide. Include 3 complete STAR stories written out in full as examples.