Checklist
Interview research checklist
This is for anyone who has an interview booked and wants research that changes what they say, rather than a pile of notes. Allow 45 to 90 minutes. The aim is three or four specific facts and a short list of likely concerns, not expert knowledge of the company.
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Why research ends with writing
Research only helps if it reaches your answers. A list of company facts you never use is trivia, and interviewers rarely test trivia. They are much more likely to ask why you want the role, how your experience fits it and what you would do in it. That is why the checklist moves from the posting to the company to the interviewers, and then spends its last section on matching stories, drafting a "Why us?" answer and choosing questions. The final item is a stop signal: past a point, more reading raises anxiety more than it improves answers.
Use only public information, and treat anything you cannot confirm as a guess. Do not mention private details you learned about an interviewer, and avoid quoting facts you are not sure of.
Where this comes from
The sequence follows this site's guides to preparing with limited time and to answering "Why do you want to work here?", and the general advice from university career centres to research the role, the organization and the interviewers and then connect that research to your own examples. Minute counts are rough guides, not measured figures.