Project and Program Manager Interview Prep with Claude

Practice project, program, PMO and TPM interviews in Claude, with questions built from your own resume and posting

Created byDmitrii Selkov

Last updated 10/2026

English

What you'll learn

Build an interview question set from your own resume and a real job posting, with the lines a hiring manager is likely to question
Read a job posting as the interviewer will: which requirements your resume covers, covers in part, or does not show
Answer with a clear structure: the situation, your own action, the result, and the figure or record behind it
Give every figure a baseline, an end figure and a source, and keep your answers consistent with your resume
Answer requirement gap questions honestly, with your nearest real example and what carries over
Check that your LinkedIn headline and About tell the same story as your resume
Put your role track, questions, checked answers and gaps on a one-page prep sheet

Course content

6 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 20m total length

1.1 Why PM interviews turn on your own resume lines7:12
Why the hardest interview questions quote your own resume lines and the posting, where answers break, and the loop this course teaches: build, answer, check, fix.
1.2 Course setup: add the free PM Career Desk connector to Claude8:21
Who makes the connector, what it costs, what it sees and keeps; add it from Claude's directory, turn it on in a chat and run a first check with no personal text.

2.1 Name your role track before you prepare a single answer7:05
Name the role your interview will test, set the role value the tools use, and run the title fit check if you sit between project, program and TPM.
2.2 Read the posting the way the interviewer will8:02
Match your resume to a posting: which requirements it covers, covers in part or does not show, and which of them are missing from the page or from your record.

3.1 The resume lines a hiring manager will press on6:51
Run the whole resume review, read risky, unsupported and generic lines in order, and pair each with the question it is likely to draw.
3.2 Build your question set from your resume and the posting7:12
Build questions that quote your lines, questions from the posting's requirements and behavioral questions for your role, then choose the 8 to 10 to practice first.

4.1 The four parts of a strong answer7:08
Situation, your own action, result and evidence: write one answer as you would say it, run the answer check with its question id, fix what it flags and check again.
4.2 Figures you can stand behind, and saying I instead of we6:29
Give every figure a baseline, an end figure and a source, check your answer's figures against your resume, and name your own part next to the team's.
4.3 Gap questions: an honest answer when your resume does not show it6:29
Answer a requirement your resume does not show with the gap rubric: a plain statement, your nearest real example, what carries over, and no stretch.

5.1 Your LinkedIn headline and About, read before the interview6:23
Check that your headline and About tell the same story as your resume, and fix what contradicts it first, using only facts already on the page.
5.2 Your one-page prep sheet and a full practice round6:45
Put your role track, questions, checked answers, figures and gaps on one page, then run the whole loop once more on a second posting.

Requirements

A Claude account. Connectors from Claude's connector directory are available on every Claude plan, including the free plan; on Team and Enterprise plans an owner may need to enable connectors first.
The PM Career Desk connector from Claude's connector directory. The tools this course uses need no sign-in and no payment; the setup lecture shows how to add it.
Your resume as plain text and the full text of one real job posting, both in English.
Experience in a project, program, PMO, delivery, scrum master, business analyst or product owner role.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

In a project or program manager interview, the hardest questions are rarely on a list of common questions. The hiring manager reads a line of your resume back to you and asks what you did yourself, what changed and how you know. Then they turn to the job posting and ask about the requirements your resume does not show.

This course prepares you for exactly those questions, using your own material. You build an interview question set from your own resume and a real job posting, answer the questions one at a time, check the structure of each answer, and fix what the check finds. You leave with a question set, several checked practice answers, an honest answer for each gap, and a one-page prep sheet for the night before.

How it works. The work happens in Claude with one connector, PM Career Desk, which you add in the course setup lecture. The tools this course uses are free and need no sign-in. They read your resume and the posting by fixed rules and return the lines a hiring manager is likely to press on, the requirements your resume covers in part or does not show, behavioral questions for your role, and a structure check of each practice answer: situation, your own action, result, and the figure or record behind it. The tools do not judge whether a story is true; you decide what to say. Every demo uses a made-up candidate and a made-up company; every practice step uses your own resume and posting.

Who it is for. Project managers, program managers, PMO leads, technical program managers, scrum masters, delivery managers, business analysts and product owners preparing for interviews in English.

What is in it: about 80 minutes of video in 6 short sections, a practice step at the end of every lecture, and English captions.

This is interview practice. It does not promise an interview, an offer or a job title.

Independence: This is an independent course. It is not created, sponsored or endorsed by Anthropic PBC, and it is not affiliated with the Project Management Institute (PMI). "Claude" and "Anthropic" are trademarks of Anthropic PBC, referenced here only to describe course content.

About how this course was made: The narration of this course uses an AI voice model trained on the instructor's own voice (an ElevenLabs Professional Voice Clone). Every lecture, including the welcome lecture, is narrated with this voice model. Claude helped draft scripts, slides and practice steps; all content was reviewed and edited before recording. Tool results shown on screen are signed "Reed (AI), PM Career Desk": Reed is an AI, not a person.

This course contains a promotion. Every section uses the free PM Career Desk connector for Claude. PM Career Desk is a tool the instructor designed, sold by PME Consulting.

Who this course is for:

Project and program managers preparing for interviews where the resume will be read line by line
PMO leads and PMO analysts moving to a new organization
Technical program managers, scrum masters and delivery managers who need to show their own part in team results
Business analysts and product owners whose interviews test requirements, trade-offs and stakeholders
Anyone who has a posting in hand and wants questions built from it, not a generic list
Not for: people looking for a course on Claude itself, prompt writing or resume templates

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Start here2 lectures • 16min

Know what you are interviewing for2 lectures • 15min

Find the questions your resume will trigger2 lectures • 14min

Answer and check3 lectures • 20min

Ready for the day2 lectures • 13min

Bonus Lecture: Where to go next1 lecture • 2min

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