Episode 65
How to Ace Any Job Interview in 2025– Advanced Tips & AI Strategies - w/ Varun
In this episode, our featured not-expert is Varun Negandhi — founder of Beyond Grad , where he has coached 1,000+ experienced professionals into top-tier roles worldwide. Varun shares exclusive interview-coaching insights from his 21-Day Interview Mastery cohorts.
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- Ace Any Job Interview in 2025– Advanced Tips & AI Strategies - w/ Varun
- How to communicate the “fit” even when it isn’t obvious
- All my links readysetdopodcast.com Resources Varun on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vnegandhi/ Beyond Grad: https://beyondgrad.com Timestamps 00:00 Intro + Background 02:11 The ONLY interview question you can prepare for and nail every time 04:24 Naman answers “Tell Me About Yourself” 06:26 Varun critiques (roasts) Naman’s response 09:53 The Three-Act Structure for “Tell Me About Yourself” 13:31 How to communicate the “fit” even when it isn’t obvious 16:06 Beginner frameworks for answering behavioral questions 20:28 Can you just “wing” behavioral questions?
- jobs at top companies in the world. In this episode, Vun shares with us some exclusive interview coaching advice that...
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this episode featured not expert is Vun N Gandhi. Vun is the founder at Beyond Grad where he has coached over a thousand experienced professionals, land jobs at top companies in the world. In
jobs at top companies in the world. In this episode, Vun shares with us some exclusive interview coaching advice that he normally shares during his 21-day interview mastery cohort. We go over
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In this episode, our featured not-expert is Varun Negandhi — founder of Beyond Grad, where he has coached 1,000+ experienced professionals into top-tier roles worldwide.
Varun shares exclusive interview-coaching insights from his 21-Day Interview Mastery cohorts. We cover practical frameworks for every interview-question type and the psychology of endearing yourself to any interviewer, no matter the industry, role, or career stage.
All my links
readysetdopodcast.com
Resources
Varun on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vnegandhi/
Beyond Grad: https://beyondgrad.com
Timestamps
00:00 Intro + Background
02:11 The ONLY interview question you can prepare for and nail every time
04:24 Naman answers “Tell Me About Yourself”
06:26 Varun critiques (roasts) Naman’s response
09:53 The Three-Act Structure for “Tell Me About Yourself”
13:31 How to communicate the “fit” even when it isn’t obvious
16:06 Beginner frameworks for answering behavioral questions
20:28 Can you just “wing” behavioral questions?
23:15 The simply GENIUS framework for answering behavioral questions
27:26 Common interview pitfalls: navigating experience and anxiety
32:46 Why conclusions for ALL your responses are so underrated
35:10 Is my Indian accent holding me back in interviews?
39:19 Leveraging AI for interview preparation
43:25 Psychological tricks to endear yourself to interviewers
48:55 Battling anxiety before and during interviews
52:20 Overcoming overwhelm: the journey to interview mastery