Lesson 211 · 3 min
Practising with a mock interview
Ask a chatbot to play the interviewer, one question at a time, and to give honest feedback on your answers at the end.
Interviews are a skill, and skills improve with practice. Most people practise by reading questions in their head, which is nothing like answering out loud under pressure.
A chatbot can play the interviewer. Give it the job post and your CV, tell it to ask one question at a time and wait for your answer. Voice mode makes it closer to the real thing.
At the end, ask for feedback: which answers were vague, where you needed a concrete example, and what a stronger answer might include. Ask it to be direct, since chatbots tend to praise too much.
Use the practice to find your stories, then tell them in your own words in the real interview. Interviewers can usually tell when an answer was memorised.
Do it now
Run a ten-minute mock
- 1. Copy a job post you are interested in.
- 2. Start the prompt below and answer each question as if it were real.
- 3. Ask for feedback, then redo your weakest answer.
Act as an interviewer for this job: [PASTE JOB POST]. My background: [SHORT SUMMARY]. Ask me 5 questions, one at a time, and wait for my answer each time. Mix questions about my experience with one hard question. After the fifth answer, give blunt feedback: what was vague, what example I was missing, and one way to improve each answer.
Quick check
Keep going
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- Role prompting
- Starting a prompt by telling the AI who to act as, such as an experienced editor, to shape tone and focus.
- Sycophancy
- An AI's tendency to agree with you or flatter your ideas instead of telling you where you are wrong.