In an ideal world, you’d have 30 days of structured preparation before interview season kicks off.

Reality: you sent out 80 applications and assumed they all disappeared into a black hole. Then Wednesday afternoon, a recruiter calls: “Hi, we’d love to schedule your interview for Friday afternoon.”

You have 72 hours. What do you do?

This is an hour-by-hour sprint plan. One prerequisite: you’re not starting from absolute zero. You have work experience and project stories — you just haven’t had time to package them for interviews. If you haven’t even written your resume yet, go handle the fundamentals first.