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When Cookie Cutter Doesn’t Cut It

1 min read · By admin · March 23, 2026

When Cookie Cutter Doesnt Cut ItA few weeks back, Andrea and I tried our hands at one of those boxed meals. (Where they send you a box full of pre-prepared ingredients and a recipe card, and you make it yourself.)

They’re supposed to be easy. But we found the process difficult and time-consuming. I even said to Andrea:

“We’d have an easier time if we made this ourselves from scratch!”

(And I meant it!)

Anyway, what does all this have to do with you getting your dream job?

Everything.

If you search around the Internet, you can find plenty of “cookie-cutter” answers to the most common interview questions. They sound good on paper, but when you try to use them in a real interview, they just feel awkward and difficult. Why? Because they’re not your answers.          

You too are better creating your own interview answers from scratch. Answers that suit your natural personality and your own track record.

It’s not as difficult as you might think, especially when you have a proven structure you can use to guide your own unique answers.

This is something I take you through in Interview Success Formula.

I’ll guide you through the process of creating your own unique “go to” answers that: (a) sound impressive and original; (b) tick all the right boxes, in regards to what the interviewer is looking for in their dream candidate; while (c) being 100% authentic to who you are and what you can offer.

As counter-intuitive as it seems, this process is a lot easier than trying to hack and cut at some cookie-cutter answer that sounds good in theory but risks making you look silly in a real interview.

Interview Success Formula is the easy way — but you need to be willing to invest the time required to go through the entire process.

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