Six things people say about themselves in interviews. Rate how strong your proof is for each one, and find out which are worth saying out loud.
Hard worker. Quick learner. Great with people. All possibly true, and all worthless in an interview, because the person across the table has heard every one of them today and has no way to tell yours apart. What separates a claim that works is never how strongly you feel it. It is whether something specific sits behind it.
One star if you believe it but could not point at anything. Five if you could name the number or the person.
One dropdown: is it a number, a person, something you built, or one occasion.
Which claims to lead with, which to tighten, and which to leave out entirely.
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Everyone arrives at this question with things they believe about themselves. Hard worker. Quick learner. Great with people. All possibly true, and all worthless in an interview, because the interviewer has heard every one of them today already and has no way to tell yours apart.
What separates a claim that works from one that does not is never how strongly you feel it. It is whether there is something specific behind it that someone else could confirm. That is the whole difference.
So rate your evidence rather than your confidence. Six common claims. Give each one a star rating for how strong the proof is, not how true you think it is.
Rate your evidence
How strong is the proof, honestly?
One star means you believe it but could not point at anything. Five means you could name the number, the person, or the exact occasion without thinking about it. Most people have one or two fives, and that is completely normal.