“I know the STAR method — Situation, Task, Action, Result. It’s simple.”

If that sounds like you, the following scenario probably sounds familiar:

The interviewer asks: “Tell me about the most challenging team conflict you’ve handled.”

You answer confidently: “We had a tight deadline once, and I disagreed with the designer — I thought their design was too expensive to implement, they insisted on it. We compromised, and the project shipped on time.”