Interview Prep

What it is

This skill helps you prepare for interviews by walking through background research, question frameworks, and logistics. Whether you're interviewing customers, experts, or stakeholders, it provides checklists for pre-interview research, question templates for different interview types, and guidelines for recording consent and attribution. You'll get structured frameworks to ensure you ask the right questions and capture what you need.

What it does

• Generates pre-interview research checklists covering background, public records, and topic context
• Provides question frameworks and templates tailored to interview type (profile, expert, investigative, sensitive)
• Explains recording consent laws and provides consent templates for different scenarios
• Offers attribution guidelines (on record, background, deep background, off record) with clarification scripts
• Creates interview logistics checklists including scheduling templates and day-of preparation

Use it when

• You're preparing to interview customers, users, or stakeholders for research
• You need to interview an expert or subject matter specialist for content
• You're conducting user interviews or customer discovery calls
• You want a structured approach to ensure you get the information you need from any conversation