The Team Lead and Manager Round

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 3 minIT & TechnologyLesson 5 of 6 · Outline

Aims

Tell a two-minute STAR story about a real technical project, give measurable results and defend your decisions when the interviewer pushes back

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Today's Goal: Tell and Defend Your Project Story

    4 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What the Interviewer Is Judging

    Read a 286-word text about What the Interviewer Is Judging

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words for Defending Your Decisions

    7 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: STAR for Engineers

    STAR for Engineers (Situation, Task, Action, Result, and What I Would Do Differently), 5 steps

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Complete the Project Story

    Gap-fill exercise, 7 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Project Story

    Error-correction exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: The Hiring Manager Pushes Back

    Role-play: A second-round interview with an engineering manager (5 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: After the Interview

    4 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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stakeholdertrade-offbottlenecklatencymetricownershiphindsight

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