You have sat a mock interview and got real critique back. Some of it may still sting. Today you are reflecting: you will work that critique through a clear set of moves, separate what was said about the performance from what it says about you, and write the first draft of a plan that responds to feedback. That plan is the seed of ALT 4 later in this strand: evidence that you responded to real interview or workplace feedback with concrete change. Resilience is not a mood you resolve to have. It is built by responding to something real.

If you do not have mock-interview feedback to hand, ask your teacher for the anonymised sample before you start the plan. If this work brings up something heavier than interview technique, talk to your teacher or school guidance counsellor; the lesson is about performance feedback, not a verdict on your worth.

Three terms you will use while you work your own feedback today:

Study how Aoife worked real mock-interview critique into a short response plan. Use the annotations to see each move: how she separated the performance from her identity, which stinging line she accepted, what she refused, and the two changes she named.

Then create or open a document titled Resilience Plan YourName in your Strand 2.2 folder (a blank document is fine). If you do not have your own mock-interview feedback, ask your teacher for the anonymised sample first. Use that feedback as the raw material and write under these three headings:

• Feedback received: the feedback you actually received, in the words it was given (or as close as you can remember)
• Accept and refuse with reasons: which part you accept and why, and which part you do not accept and why
• Two checkable changes: the two things you will do differently next time, each specific enough that someone could check whether you did them

Work in three phases: study Aoife's plan, write your own, then pair-share one change you named and save.

This is your first draft of ALT 4 material. ALT 4 later in this strand looks for evidence that you responded to real interview or workplace feedback with concrete change. Today's plan is the seed of that evidence, not the finished assessed piece: a plan that responds to real feedback rather than a promise to "be more resilient". Save the document when you finish.

If the feedback or how it sits with you feels bigger than interview technique, talk to your teacher or school guidance counsellor. Your guidance counsellor is there if this is sitting heavily with you.

Talk these through with the person beside you, or work them on your own in quiet:

• Which line in your own feedback was hardest to accept, and what made you decide it was accurate anyway?
• If resilience is built by responding to real feedback rather than by resolving to be resilient, what is the smallest next chance you will get to try one of your two changes?

If you want a short note in your Digital Portfolio later, add two or three lines under your Resilience Plan on which change you will try first and when.

In this lesson you:

• Named disappointment and resilience as ordinary parts of applying and interviewing, not as personal verdicts
• Studied how to separate performance feedback from identity judgements on a real mock-interview critique
• Accepted one accurate stinging point, refused what was unfair or vague, and gave reasons for both
• Drafted your Resilience Plan in Strand 2.2 with two checkable changes
• Banked first ALT 4 material from real feedback rather than from a promise to toughen up

Optional stretch: rewrite one of your two changes so it names the exact next opportunity (date, class, shift, or second mock) and the evidence you will have afterwards.