Bringing the STAR format to MindManager
Apr 24th, 2007 | By Chuck Frey | Category: Tips & Techniques
Many companies today incorporate behavioral questions into job interviews, to get a sense of your problem solving abilities. One way to prepare for these tough questions is to do what’s called "STAR" planning. STAR stands for:
- Situation: give an example of a situation you were involved in that resulted in a positive outcome
- Task: describe the tasks involved in that situation
- Action: talk about the various actions involved in the situation’s task
- Results: what results directly followed because of your actions
According to the MIT Careers Center, you can use STAR to prepare stories that you can tell during your interview. Jason from the Dorkotech blog is a big fan of MindManager, and will soon be graduating from college. To help him to prepare for behavioral interviewing questions, he has created a simple MindManager map part that enables you to add STAR to a map, and begin fleshing out your "stories" in a visual format.
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This is very similiar to the Action Research Cycle used in academics.
I have been a mind map user for over 25 years and a Mind Manager user for 7 years.
I have increasingly wanted to use the mindmaps I create with associated pictures in presentations instead of Powerpoint. Conceptually, Mindmaps would allow me to go to the places on the map relevant to those I am communicating with. Mindmanager has a presentation mode but it does not work well. After clicking on a node or picture, I have to scroll around so that what I want shown is central.
Have you researched this aspect or have ideas for me.
Thank you for your focus on this important topics and the helps you have provided us practitioners.
Richard Morris
Director, MAF Learning Technologies