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Practise your job interview with AI, step by step

Interviews are a performance you can rehearse. This course turns an AI chat into a patient but honest interviewer: it asks one question at a time, scores your answers, shows you your weakest sentence, and drills the questions you are hoping they won't ask. If you did the resume course first, bring your facts list — it becomes your answer bank.

What you need: the job posting, your resume, and somewhere you can talk out loud. Typing answers is better than nothing; speaking them is the real training.

The steps

1. Set up the interviewer. Give the AI the role, the rules, and the posting — then let it drive, one question at a time:
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   You are the hiring manager for [job title] at [company or type of company]. Interview me for this role. Ask ONE question at a time and wait for my answer before the next. Start with “Tell me about yourself.” Here is the job posting: [paste]

2. Answer out loud, like it's real. Speak each answer as if the manager is in the room. Aim for 60–90 seconds. For story questions (“tell me about a time when…”), use the shape: Situation (one line), Task (your job in it), Action (what you did), Result (what changed, with a number if you have one).
   Checkpoint

   You should now have: three or four full answers spoken aloud — wobbles and all. The wobbles are what practice is for.

3. Demand the honest debrief. AI interviewers flatter by default. Make honesty part of the instructions after any answer you care about:
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   Pause the interview. Score that answer out of 10 for clarity, evidence, and length. Show me my weakest sentence, then show a stronger version built ONLY from things I actually said.

4. Drill the three hardest questions. The gap in your history, the salary question, why you left — the questions you dread are the ones to rehearse most:
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   Ask me the three hardest questions for this role — about gaps, salary expectations, and why I am leaving — one at a time. If an answer is vague, push back once, like a real manager would.

5. Prepare your questions for them. The last five minutes of an interview are yours. Candidates who ask sharp questions get remembered:
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   Give me five smart questions to ask at the end of this interview that show I understand the role, and tell me one thing I should never say in this interview.

6. The day-before rapid round. The night before, run a fast refresher and memorise your two best stories in three lines each:
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   Quiz me: ten short questions, rapid-fire, drawn from the posting and my resume. Afterwards, summarise my two strongest stories in three lines each so I can memorise them.

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   You should now have: two memorised stories, five questions of your own, and the experience of having already “done” this interview once.

Common mistakes (skip these)

• Reading polished answers instead of speaking. Interviews are spoken. Practise with your voice, at real length, with real pauses.
• Accepting flattery. “Great answer!” teaches nothing. Scores, weakest sentences, and pushback are the training.
• Letting the AI invent your achievements. Stronger versions must be built from what you actually said — rehearse the truth, tightened.
• Skipping the questions you dread. They are the highest-value practice on this page.