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WEEK 7 · PILLAR 1 · STRUCTURED EVALUATION

Managing Time & Pacing

WHAT IT IS

Managing time and pacing means planning how many minutes each competency gets, keeping to that plan, and moving on deliberately when you have enough evidence — or not enough. Running out of time is a structural failure, not bad luck.

WHY IT MATTERS

When one great story eats 25 minutes, the remaining competencies get rushed or skipped — and the score for them becomes a guess filled in by overall impression.

Inside the full lesson
  • • 3 practical rules to use in your next interview
  • • Signal-vs-noise lab: 2 real interview moments, weak vs. strong interviewer
  • • What goes wrong when teams skip it
  • • 3 realistic scenarios to test your judgement, with XP and streaks
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