Use STAR to Probe Without Leading
Use neutral STAR follow-ups to complete an incomplete behavioral answer.
A complete STAR answer lets you score behavior; an incomplete one only lets you score style. Situation and task set the burden Ask enough context to understand constraints, scale, and responsibility. A story about a two-person bug fix is not the same signal as a story about a cross-org outage, but both can show ownership if the task is clear. Action is the evidence core The action has to be personal and observable. We aligned is weaker than I wrote the risk memo, proposed two options, and asked Finance to pick a threshold. Result closes the loop Result does not…
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