Acing your job interview requires much more than a solid set of skills and experience. To land that dream job, you'll need to present your best self and convince your interviewer that you're the right person for it.
Thankfully, there are several tools that use AI to provide realistic interview practice that will help you perform at your best.
1 Zilta
Zilta is an AI interviewer that conducts mock behavioral interviews and provides detailed feedback to help you improve.
To get started, enter your role, job description, and company. The AI then uses these details to ask some initial questions, which it follows with further questions based on your answers.
You can answer these questions by recording your audio, but the Premium plan provides an option for video as well.
After the interview, Zilta shares detailed, well-rounded feedback. Besides the content of your answers, it also comments on your speech and delivery. For example, it can highlight the excessive use of filler words. This helps you improve your answers and avoid common interview mistakes.
Perhaps the only downside is that you can practice just one interview for free.
2 Huru
Huru is another tool that is available online as well as a mobile application. It has pre-made interview questions for over 2,000 job roles. But you can practice for any job listed on sites like Indeed or LinkedIn by installing the Huru Chrome extension, generating a QR code on your desktop, and scanning it with the mobile app.
As you answer its questions, Huru records your video and displays it during evaluation so you can assess your expressions and body language.
After the interview, Huru provides an analysis, discussing the accuracy of each answer alongside your grammar, speech quality, and confidence. It also suggests ideal answers and tips for better responses.
While it does help you with interview practice, there are a few drawbacks. First, it shows the questions and asks if you're ready to answer. This gives you more time to think than you'd get in a real interview. Second, Huru does its analysis after every answer, which can take a long time and breaks the flow. It provides only one interview as a free trial.
3 Interview School
Interview School conducts mock interviews using its AI coach. It has a large number of pre-built interviews, but also lets you create a custom one. The existing library includes interviews for specific companies as well. For example, you can practice for the role of a Financial Analyst at Amazon.
To make your practice more realistic, it not only records your video but also shows an animated, human-like interviewer.
One of the things it could improve is the quality of questions. Most questions it asked me were quite basic and followed a similar theme. But you can solve this by creating a custom interview.
On a free plan, it does save your interview video for you to assess, but doesn't provide detailed feedback using AI. Instead, it just shares an overall grade.
4 Ava by Wizco
If you're looking for a free AI tool to practice for your interviews, Ava by Wizco is a great option. It covers both behavioral and technical questions in a single session.
It begins your practice session by asking for details about the job you're applying for. This includes your field, role, company, job responsibilities, and professional background. Based on these, it generates and asks personalized questions. It can even follow up on your answer, asking you to share more details or specific examples.
The best part about Wizco is its detailed feedback report. First, it provides an overall summary and score, rating your attitude, confidence, communication, and knowledge based on your answers. Then it assesses each response, giving it a score out of 10, analyzing your tone and providing key takeaways.
On the downside, Ava by Wizco doesn't record your video. So if you're looking to assess your body language as well, it's perhaps not for you.
5 STAR Method Coach
STAR Method is a technique to answer interview questions by describing the situation, task, action, and results. This simplified framework not only helps you highlight your experience but also provides a coherent way to communicate your thoughts.
If you're trying to prepare interview answers using this technique, STAR Method Coach can help you perfect your responses. The best thing about this tool is that there are multiple ways it can generate questions. It has pre-made question lists for different job roles, companies, and skills. But it can also generate customized questions based on your resume or job description. And you can even supply the questions you want it to ask.
Once the questions are ready, you can choose between two modes: mock interview and guided conversation.
The guided conversation mode first asks you to answer the question. It then evaluates your answer and helps you to improve it, ensuring that it appropriately follows each element of the STAR framework. For instance, it asked me to provide more details about the situation part. After your answer is complete, it gives a score and feedback.
During the Mock Interview mode, STAR Method Coach asks follow-up questions with no assistance, more accurately replicating up a real interview.
Overall, I liked this tool because of the detailed follow-up questions it asks (which you will typically encounter during any interview), but there is no option to record your video.
If you found the STAR method useful, you can use these STAR templates to organize your answers.
6 interviewsbyai
interviewsbyai is a simple tool to help you practice for interviews, using AI to generate questions and provide feedback. It asks you to paste the job description and then generates customized technical and behavioral questions.
You can answer these questions both by speaking or typing. After each response, the tool provides feedback and a sample answer so you can assess your performance. Once you've completed the interview, it again shows a summary for each question, highlighting the positives and negatives of your answer.
On a free plan, you can practice just three questions per month, so it's more like a trial account.
From asking personalized questions to providing actionable feedback, these AI interview coaches offer you an excellent opportunity to practice. They can help you think on your feet and face tricky follow-up questions. But there are a few common interview questions you should prepare for beforehand.
