Control AI-based Interviews

  • Perform better in AI-evaluated, automated video interviews like HireVue

  • Increase your candidate ranking. Learn the right strategy to improve

  • Personalize your responses so they appear genuine to a recruiter, not automatically generated

Raise your score with more word variety

Your words are your actions, to an algorithm. Express a bigger range to evaluate

  • Self - Knowledge

    Use your personal preferences and favorites to broaden your interview responses.

  • Self - Expression

    Take advantage of the automated video interview format to fully express yourself.

Learning Outcomes:

Familiarity with the format: Understand how AI-based Interviews are different than other types of interviews

Contextualization: Increase the word variety in your response and personalize it at the same time

Clarification: Meaning-making to feed the algorithm

Evidence Based

A candidate’s words matter, but verbal characteristics and facial action do not.
(Hickman, Tay & Woo, 2024)

A candidate's word count correlates positively to favorable personality traits. See tip sheet for more information.
(Stevenor et.al., 2024)

What Doesn’t Matter

  • Vocal pitch (enthusiasm)
  • Filler words (um’s and ah’s)
  • Facial expressions
  • Eye contact

Generate Better Responses

  • Good Responses

    Use rational and coherent communication

  • Better Responses

    Add emotional qualities and symbolic language

Career-Readiness Competencies

Automated video interviews can measure almost twenty competencies, but candidates are only ranked in a handful of them.

Competencies are revealed through careful speech analysis. Learn why this new paradigm of interviewing offers more opportunity for self-expression.

Pass the Response Integrity Checks

Don’t rely on these deceptive practices

  • Overuse of keywords
  • Responses shared among candidates
  • Reading from a script

Improve Coherence

  • Avoid rambling and repeating

10 Unconscious Habits of Speech

The words people use can provide insights into their identity.

Learn More
  • Pronouns
  • Self-referential Language
  • Cognitive Complexity
  • Future Oriented Language
  • Coherence
  • Concrete vs. Abstract Language
  • Passive vs. Active Voice
  • Certainty vs. Tentative Language
  • Complexity of Vocabulary
  • Postive vs. Negative Emotion Words

Context Drives the Algorithm

Your statements will rank higher when they have more context. Learn the three essential ways to build your responses.

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