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AI prompts for interview preparation

Interview practice needs a partner who asks questions and reacts to your answers. An AI assistant can play that part at any hour. It can also help you turn a rambling story into a clear answer. It cannot tell you what a particular company will ask, and its "typical questions" are general, so use it for practice and not for prediction.

The prompts

Run a mock interview

This works best as a conversation. The assistant asks, you answer, it responds.

Act as an interviewer for the role of [ROLE] at [TYPE OF EMPLOYER]. I have [YEARS] of experience.

Ask me one question at a time and wait for my answer. After each answer, give two lines of feedback: what worked and what to improve. Then ask the next question. Mix questions about my experience, my skills and how I handle situations. After six questions, give me an overall summary.

Begin with the first question.

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Shape an answer about my experience

Help me answer this interview question: [THE QUESTION]

Here is what really happened: [TELL THE STORY IN YOUR OWN WORDS]

Arrange it as: the situation, what I had to do, what I did, and the result. Keep it under 150 words, in the first person, in words I could say aloud naturally. Do not add details I did not give.

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"Tell me about yourself"

Write a one minute answer to "Tell me about yourself" for an interview for [ROLE].

Facts about me: [EDUCATION, CURRENT WORK, TWO STRENGTHS, WHY THIS ROLE]

It should sound like speech, not like a resume read aloud. About 130 words. Give me two versions.

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Likely questions for this job

Here is a job advertisement. List fifteen questions an interviewer could reasonably ask for it: five about the skills it names, five about past experience, five about behaviour and attitude. For each, add one line on what the interviewer is trying to find out.

[PASTE THE ADVERTISEMENT]

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Questions I should ask them

Suggest eight good questions I could ask at the end of an interview for [ROLE] at [TYPE OF EMPLOYER]. They should show interest in the work and help me decide whether the job suits me. Avoid questions about salary and leave for the first round, and avoid anything I could find on the company's website.

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The difficult question

I am worried about being asked this in my interview: [THE QUESTION, FOR EXAMPLE ABOUT A GAP, LOW MARKS OR LEAVING A JOB].

The truth is: [WHAT HAPPENED]

Help me prepare an honest answer of three or four sentences that does not hide the fact, does not blame anyone and moves on to what I learnt or what I do now.

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How to adapt these prompts

Name the role and the kind of employer. A bank, a school and a small trading firm ask different things.
Set the level. Add "I am a fresher" or "this is for a senior position" so that the questions fit.
Practise in the language of the interview. If it will be in Hindi or partly in Hindi, ask the assistant to run the mock interview that way.
Ask for harder questions. After one round, say "Now ask tougher follow-up questions on my weakest two answers".
Type your answers as you would speak them. If your assistant has a voice mode, speaking is better practice still.

Keep it honest and your own

Do not memorise the assistant's wording. Interviewers notice recited answers, and a follow-up question will expose them. Use the draft to get the order of your points right, then say it in your own words several times.

Remember that the questions an assistant suggests are general guesses. Read the advertisement, the employer's website and any official notice for the selection process yourself. For a government or bank recruitment, the official notification is the only reliable guide to what the stages are.

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This is an independent site. It is not connected with any company that makes AI assistants. The prompts are plain text and can be used in any AI chat assistant. An AI assistant can give wrong or made-up answers: check anything important before you rely on it, and do not paste private details into a prompt.