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Your 50 questions

Answer these out loud with Wispr Flow. Together your answers become the corpus your chatbot speaks from. The more specific and real you are, the more the bot sounds like you.

How to use them
  • Talk, don't type. Aim for 4 to 8 sentences each. Stories beat bullet points.
  • You don't need a big resume. A class project, a club, a part-time job, research, a hackathon, or a side project all count as real experience.
  • Use real names, numbers, and outcomes ("raised $2k", "team of 5", "got 200 signups").
  • Don't self-edit for grammar; Claude Code cleans it up later. Just keep talking.
  • Say only what you'd be comfortable on a public website. Anything private gets stripped later, but it is easier to not say it.
  • Short on time? Do the ★ core 30. They cover everything the chatbot needs. The rest add color.

1. Snapshot & positioning

  1. 1In two or three sentences, who are you and what are you looking for right now?★ core
  2. 2What kind of role, internship, or field are you targeting, and why that?★ core
  3. 3What's the throughline across your experiences so far, the thing that connects classes, jobs, and activities that might look unrelated on paper?
  4. 4What are you genuinely good at? Name two or three strengths and give a quick example of each, from anywhere: class, a job, a project, a club.★ core
  5. 5Where are you still growing? What's a skill you're deliberately working on right now?
  6. 6What makes you different from other students applying for the same roles?

2. Experience & impact

  1. 7Walk me through your most significant experience so far, an internship, a job, research, or a big class or club project. What did you actually do?★ core
  2. 8What accomplishment are you proudest of, and what was the result? A number if you have one.★ core
  3. 9Tell me about a time you took something disorganized or broken and made it better, a process, a group project, a task at work.
  4. 10Describe a project you owned from start to finish. What was it and how did it turn out?★ core
  5. 11Tell me about a time you led or stepped up without a title, got a group moving without being in charge of them.★ core
  6. 12What's the hardest problem you've solved, in a class, a project, or a job, and how did you crack it?★ core
  7. 13Tell me about a time you failed or something didn't work out. What did you learn?★ core
  8. 14Describe a time you had to learn something new, fast, to get something done.★ core
  9. 15Tell me about a decision you made without having all the information you wanted.
  10. 16When have you disagreed with a teammate, a professor, or a manager? How did it play out?
  11. 17Give an example of a time you convinced a group to go with your idea.
  12. 18What's a measurable result you can point to, a grade you pulled up, money raised, signups, hours saved, a percentage, and how did you get it?★ core

3. Skills & how you work

  1. 19What's your toolkit, the software, languages, or platforms you actually use?★ core
  2. 20How do you use AI in school or work? Give a concrete example.★ core
  3. 21How do you approach a problem you've never seen before?★ core
  4. 22How do you prioritize when everything's due at once, finals, deadlines, work, all of it?
  5. 23How do you like to work in a team? What role do you usually end up playing in group projects?★ core
  6. 24How do you handle feedback? Give an example of acting on tough feedback from a professor, manager, or teammate.★ core
  7. 25What does "good enough to turn in" or "ready to ship" mean to you? How do you know when something's done?
  8. 26Describe how you'd explain a complicated idea to someone without the background.

4. Projects & building

  1. 27Tell me about something you made or started outside of class requirements, a side project, an event, a club, content, anything.★ core
  2. 28What were you trying to solve, and who was it for?★ core
  3. 29What did you learn building it that a class couldn't have taught you?
  4. 30What's something you want to build or do next, and why that?★ core
  5. 31When you start something new, how do you decide it's worth your time?

5. Motivation & fit

  1. 32Why this field or major? What pulled you in?★ core
  2. 33What kind of work energizes you, and what drains you?★ core
  3. 34What does a great team and a great manager or mentor look like to you?
  4. 35What are you optimizing for in your first roles, growth, learning, impact, money, something else?★ core
  5. 36What would make you turn down an otherwise good offer?
  6. 37Where do you want to be a few years after graduating?★ core
  7. 38What's a belief you hold about your field that not everyone agrees with?

6. Education & background

  1. 39Walk me through your education so far, your major, your focus, and why you chose it.★ core
  2. 40What's a class, subject, or thing you studied that you still think with today?
  3. 41How did you get into the field or major you're in? What was the path?★ core
  4. 42What's a formative experience, school, work, or life, that shaped how you operate?★ core

7. The human behind the resume

  1. 43What do you do for fun, and does any of it connect to how you work?★ core
  2. 44What's a strong opinion you have about your field right now?★ core
  3. 45Who or what has shaped how you think, a person, a book, a mentor, a moment?
  4. 46What's something people are surprised to learn about you?
  5. 47How would a close friend or teammate describe working with you?★ core
  6. 48What's a habit or routine that keeps you sharp?

8. The close

  1. 49Why should someone pick you over a similar candidate? Make the case.★ core
  2. 50Is there anything important about you that none of these questions surfaced? Say it now.