Facing Down a Job Interview? AI Could Help You Prepare

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The state of today’s online job market feels dismal, and AI isn’t helping. Roles are being viewed by and applied to in the hundreds. People currently employed in certain fields are in limbo amid the rapid expansion and hype around artificial intelligence tools.

And all the while, job seekers still have to worry about the endurance test of their ability and personality: the job interview.

It’s enough to make a person yearn for the simpler days of newspaper ads and in-person handshakes. But alas, we find ourselves immersed in the era of smart homes and Bluetooth-enabled blueberry mint vapes.

The good news is that the majority of job interviews today still involve human-to-human interaction, even though recruiters are relying on AI to filter applicants.

Here are a couple of ways you can leverage AI tools to ace your next job interview.

Read more: The New Age of Hiring: AI Is Changing the Game for Job Seekers

Match your background to each role

How you look in a job interview matters. Even if you’re sitting at home pantsless and just woke up from a nap, you gotta look the part on Zoom.

You can ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude to generate Zoom backgrounds that showcase your understanding of and affinity for the company culture.

Gemini created these backgrounds for my theoretical job interviews with Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix and more.

Some of them turned out a little better than others, but you get the idea.

Created by Rachel Kane using Gemini AI

Know your worth

Some states, like California, have made it all but mandatory for employers to post the salary range for jobs they post as vacant. Even if you might know the salary range of the job going into the interview, the topic of compensation is always best approached with as much information as possible.

I asked Google’s Gemini AI to reference Glassdoor listings, public earnings, expenditure announcements, shareholder communications, and online media results for the salary ranges of the CEOs…

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