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Unorthodox ways to prepare for an interview

373 sats \ 6 comments \ @cryotosensei 3 Jul alter_native

So my interview didn’t go as well as I would have hoped, but I don’t think it takes away the fact that I have some innovative ideas about preparing for an interview. Let me reveal my ways.

1. Performance review forms

I usually dread doing work reviews every six months, but this time round, I went to copy and paste my reporting officers’ comments about me on Gemini and Meta AI. Since I thought the interviewers might ask me a question like “What do your superiors say about you?”, I asked these tools to extract pertinent themes and patterns so that I could answer this question superbly. I still remember the suggestions churned out by Gemini and Meta: student- centric, proactive and technologically inclined.

I then got a third opinion by pasting Gemini’s and Meta’s responses on ChatGPT and ask it to compare and contrast the two so that I could get a more rigorous sense of my superiors’ opinions about me. That was fun to read.

2. Anticipating interview questions

I copied and pasted my entire resume on Gemini, Meta and ChatGPT and asked them to surface ten questions interviewers would most likely ask. I then mentally prepared answers to some of the common ones.

3. Recording my responses

I utilised the Voice Typing function on Google Docs and activated it when I practised saying my answers aloud to the questions that I felt would definitely be asked. I then pasted my responses on ChatGPT and solicited for inputs. ChatGPT consistently mentioned that I needed to work on being clear and concise - which I agree. Maybe I lost control of my interview by wanting to cover all bases and getting long-winded as a result. I guess I will never know.

I hope this helps some of you Stackers out there. Best of luck! 🤞

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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Jul

One of the tough things about interviews is how little feedback you get. It's good to trust your feelings about how it went, but it would be nice to get more detailed feedback from the interviewers.

I know that I've never felt like I did a good job at anticipating specific questions. When I was interviewing frequently, what worked better was just getting more comfortable answering unexpected questions. It's such a sub-optimal process.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 3 Jul

Even when I don't get a position I write a short email thanking the person I met with and detailing what I enjoyed about the experience and inviting them to share some feedback from their perspective but no one ever does. They don't want to waste time with the person they did not choose. They would probably be better off if they did, but I get it, sometimes you have to interview a lot of people and to take the time to give each one feedback if that was the norm would be very time consuming.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 3 Jul

There's also a liability risk in giving any reason for not hiring someone, at least in the US. There are so many protected classes of people that it's much safer to give no reasons.

It's all part of living in a low-trust society.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 3 Jul

Good point.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 3 Jul

Did your AI give you any of the same questions you were asked?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 3 Jul

I think reps are important so if it helps you to sharpen up by working with AI prior to interviews or post interviews to assess yourself then it is a good idea.