Front Foot Prep

Proof · the dossier that started this

One real interview. One real dossier. Still live.

Before Front Foot Prep was a product, it was a favour for a friend — Gaz, a senior infrastructure project manager with an interview at the Department of Home Affairs: a PM role in Connectivity & Compute, upgrading the Border Force passport-scanning (SmartGate) systems. Interview in days. We called it his war room at the time; it became the first Front Foot Dossier. These are excerpts from the actual document.

The situation

A generic job title. A very non-generic job.

On paper: “Project Manager, Connectivity & Compute”. In reality: the automated border gates at every international airport — edge systems where an outage becomes a queue, a headline, and a question at Senate Estimates. Gaz had days to prepare, a panel to face, and no time to spend hours digging through departmental reviews. So we read the conditions for him.

Inside the dossier

Five screenshots, straight from the dossier.

His name is blurred; nothing else is touched. This is the actual document he prepared from.

adamrappaport.vercel.app/gaz · the brief
Dossier opening: the decoded role — Project Manager, Connectivity & Compute — and the one thing to internalise: a burning-platform rebuild, not a greenfield project
01 The job, decoded. A generic PM title turned into the real assignment — and the one thing every answer should speak to, sourced from the agency’s own capability review.
adamrappaport.vercel.app/gaz · why you fit
Dossier section mapping the candidate's history to the role: clearance held, facial-recognition delivery, live-airport network experience, multi-site rollouts
02 The why-you-fit map. His actual history drawn straight onto their actual needs, ending in a one-liner he could say out loud.
adamrappaport.vercel.app/gaz · vocab cheat-sheet
Dossier vocab cheat-sheet: the frameworks and program terms to use naturally in context
03 Their language. The frameworks and program terms to use naturally — with the explicit warning not to recite them as a list.
adamrappaport.vercel.app/gaz · the opening
Dossier closing advice: an opening line anchored to the employer's real problem, with coaching notes
04 The opening, word for word. Anchored to their real problem — plus the honest watch-out: never over-claim.
adamrappaport.vercel.app/gaz · sources
Dossier sources section: fourteen public sources, each opening in a new tab
05 The receipts. Fourteen public sources behind the claims — the homework he could stand behind in the room.

Don’t take our word for it — the original dossier is still online, exactly as delivered, sources and all. (Employer facts are public; the candidate is first-name-only by his choice.)

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In his words

“I walked in feeling like I'd already worked there for a month. Every line of questioning, we'd anticipated — I had their own review's language, my projects mapped straight onto their program, and answers ready in my own words. It's the most prepared I've ever been for an interview, and it showed. I smashed it — and I got the job.”

— Gaz — senior infrastructure PM, the first Front Foot Prep candidate

The honest bit

Could you build this yourself? Yes. That’s the point.

Every source in that dossier is public. The capability review, the program documents, the frameworks — anyone with 10–15 focused hours could pull it together. But your interview is in days, and every hour you spend building the brief is an hour you don’t spend rehearsing from it.

So that’s the deal: within 48 hours we hand you the homework, done — researched, cited, mapped to your own history. Your remaining hours go where they pay: rehearsing your own answers until you walk in already across it. We do the research. You do the interview.

Your interview deserves the same homework.

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