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-# Graduation Interview with the HYF team
+# Graduation Interviews
 
-To graduate from HackYourFuture, you will have to pass a soft-skills graduation interview as well as a technical interview with the HYF team. In this repo we will give you information so that you can be prepared well in advance:
+To graduate from HackYourFuture, you will have to pass a soft-skills graduation interview as well as a technical interview with the HYF team (these could also be combined in only 1 meeting). 
 
-#PART 1: The soft-skills graduation interview:
+If you pass these interviews and the graduation project is finalised, you will officially graduate and we will start sending your CV's to companies! Expect a lot of interviews and technical assignments coming your way!
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+If we think that you are not ready yet, we will discuss your particular situation and come up with a tailored plan for the time to come. The plan really depends on you and what we think you need to improve, but here are some examples as reference:
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+Example 1: Build 1 or 2 technical assignments from real companies in a defined period of time.
+Example 2: Conduct further interviews with HYF mentors until you reach a good level.
+Example 3: Redo the graduation project with another class.
+Example 4: Work in an individual technical assignment while redoing the soft-skills graduation interview.
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+In this repo we will give you all the information you need so that you can prepare for both these interviews well in advance and graduate as soon as possible.
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+
+## PART 1: The soft-skills graduation interview:
 
 During this 20 minute conversation, the HYF team will interview you as if you were applying for a junior web developer role at “The HackYourFuture Company” (See job description here). 
 
 Think of this assessment as an actual interview for a real job with us, where the interviewer can ask you basically any questions. The goal behind this is to assess if you are ready for real interviews and if not, make a plan with you to improve these crucial skills as soon as possible.
 
-## Some of the questions we could ask you during the interview are (not limited to):
+### Some of the questions we could ask you during the interview are (not limited to):
 - Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
 - Why have you decided to become a web developer after working as a...?
 - Why do you want to work at HackYourFuture?
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 - What part of web development do you think is the most difficult?
 - Can you tell us about...a challenge you’ve faced at work and how you overcame it? / A time you worked on a team? / A time you solved a problem?
 
-## To assess if you are ready to pass this exercise, we will look at the following:
+### To assess if you are ready to pass this exercise, we will look at the following:
 - Is it a good conversation and do you make good use of language?
 - Do you use storytelling and STAR stories to back up your statements with real examples?
 - Do you use information from the company you are applying to (Mission, Vision, Values, News, etc), to show you’ve done your research and are motivated for the job?
 - Do you have good questions ready for the interviewer?
-- Is your CV 100% complete? (Following the CV guidelines, with at least 3 good projects added including the graduation one, no typos, good format, etc)
+- Is your CV 100% finishined? (Following the CV guidelines, with at least 4 good projects added including the graduation one, no typos, feedback implemented, good format, etc)
+- Is your GitHub and Linkedin profiles in line with the requirements from the [Personal brand repo](https://github.com/HackYourFuture/yourpersonalbrand)?
 
-## To prepare for this interview, you should:
-- Revise the Interview Preparation repo on GitHub and have your answers to the most common interview questions ready and perfected.
+### To prepare for this interview, you should:
+- Revise the [Interview Preparation repo](https://github.com/HackYourFuture/interviewpreparation) on GitHub and have your answers to the most common interview questions ready and perfected.
 - Revise all the feedback you received during your interviews at Adyen (to not make the same mistakes and actually improve on them).
 - Research the job description, the company (in this case HYF) and have great STAR stories, examples and questions ready for our talk.
 - Be sure your CV is 100% finished.
 - Practice, practice, practice!
 
-After the interview, the HYF team will let you know if you passed the assessment or not. If you did, congratulations! If you didn’t, this is just an indication that you will need to work a bit more before we can graduate you and introduce you to companies. Think of it as an opportunity to improve your skills but now with more time given that there is no homework and the graduation project should be almost done.
+After the interview, the HYF team will let you know if you passed the assessment or not. If you did, congratulations! If you didn’t, this is just an indication that you will need to work more before we can graduate you and introduce you to companies. Think of it as an opportunity to improve your skills but now with more time given that there is no homework, and the graduation project should be almost finalised.
 
 # PART 2: The technical graduation interview:
 
 ADD INFO HERE
 
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 Our mission at HackYourFuture is to help you find (and keep) a job you like and for that we need to be very straightforward when improvements are needed. We’ve helped almost 200 people start jobs at over 60 different companies, so you can trust that our feedback is only to help you improve. 
 
-We look forward to having this interview with you and moving forward through your HYF journey together!
+We look forward to having these interviews with you and moving forward through your HYF journey together!
 
 The HackYourFuture team