Interview Ready 2026

What's inside.

• Start Here, 4 pages. A plan for one afternoon. If your interview is tomorrow, there is a ninety-minute version.
• The 10 Interview Keys, 19 pages. The rules for every part of an interview, from the first question to the last five minutes. I learned them while coaching hundreds of people over the years and being on the hiring side of multiple interviews.
• The 10-Point Checklist. Ten things to have ready before you walk in.
• The Company Research Sheet. All the questions you need to research about a company.
• The Twenty Question Builder. Twenty questions to ask your interviewers: five about the company, five about the job, five about the industry, five about the interviewer. You will never again end with "No, I think you covered everything."
• The Story Bank. Five stories from your own career: a win, a failure, a disagreement, a time you learned fast, and a time you led. Each one is built in four parts, so you can tell it as charismatically as possible.
• The Answer Builder. The six questions you know are coming, with space to write your answer to each one in your own words.
• Explaining Your Work History. The layoff. Being fired. The short stay. Being overqualified. No degree. The gap. Six cases, and for each one, one honest sentence you can say out loud.
• Four email templates. The same-day follow-up, the three-day follow-up, asking for time to think about the offer, and asking for more money. Copy them, fill them in, send them.
• The Prep Sheet, the Application Tracker and the Night-Before Checklist. All your notes on one page. Every job you are in the running for on one page. And the night before, handled: practice out loud, clothes ready, space ready.

You will walk in with your twenty questions written, your five stories ready, and your number decided.

Written by Chelunor Lawrence Nwajei. Ten years in tech sales at Dell, Adobe and Salesforce. Career coach to hundreds of people over the years.