The three moves

1. Where you are now, in one sentence. Current role, the scale of what you handle, and the one thing you are known for. Present tense. "I'm a backend engineer at a payments company; I own the reconciliation pipeline, about two million transactions a day."
2. The through-line, in two or three sentences. Not every job — the thread. Pick the two moves in your history that explain how you got the skill this role needs, and say what each one gave you. Everything else on the resume is available if they ask.
3. Why this role, in one sentence. Something specific about their problem, not about your growth. This is the sentence that ends the answer and it should make the next question easy for them to ask.

Why reading the resume in order fails

A chronological walk from your first job to your current one puts the weakest, oldest, least relevant material in the position of maximum attention and arrives at the interesting part after the interviewer has stopped listening. It also answers a question nobody asked: they have the resume, they can read dates. What they are asking for is the interpretation — which of these jobs matters, and why you are in this room.

The second failure mode is length. Past ninety seconds the answer stops being an introduction and becomes a monologue, and the interviewer's first impression is formed on the monologue rather than on the content. Sixty seconds, rehearsed out loud, beats a better answer delivered for four minutes.

What to leave out

Where you grew up and what you studied, unless it is load-bearing for this role. Ten years into a career, the degree is not the story.

Why you are leaving. That question is coming separately and it has its own answer. Volunteering it here makes the introduction about the last job instead of the next one.

The gap, at this moment. Own it plainly when asked — there is a four-move answer for that — but leading with it hands your introduction to the weakest fact on the page.

Adjectives about yourself. "Passionate", "detail-oriented", "results-driven" cost you three seconds each and carry no information. A number carries information.

Building it from the document you already have

The through-line is the hard move, because it requires deciding which two of your six jobs matter for this role and being willing to compress the rest. That decision is easier when you can see which of your lines a recruiter for this particular role would actually stop on. Upload the resume, name the target role, and the analysis comes back with the questions your document invites — which tells you where the weight is. The $19 pack turns that into the 60-second script itself, along with all ten likely questions and STAR answers built from your real experience.

Then say it out loud, timed, twice. The script is not the deliverable; the version you can deliver without reading is.

The honest limits

A script is written from what is on your resume, and a career change or an unusual path may need a through-line only you can supply. Nothing is invented — the draft uses your real experience, so it cannot manufacture relevance that is not there. This is interview preparation, not career advice, and it issues no ATS score. Your file is parsed in the browser; the extracted text goes to the API, is held up to 24 hours, then deleted. Strongest in English.

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