Prepare your interview answers

Where your answers live

Open Interview prep from the sidebar. It is one list of everything you might say in an interview, and it carries over from one interview to the next. A new account starts with the 8 questions almost every interview asks and 2 good ones to ask them. Write them in any order and remove the ones you don't need.

Under the title, a line counts your answers: how many are left to write, how many to practise and how many are Ready. Each answer in the list shows its one next step: Write it, Finish it or Practise. A Ready answer shows the day it stays Ready until instead.

Your next interview

When an interview is booked, a line above the list names the day and the company, and how many of the answers you picked for it are Ready. The name opens the interview's prep page.

1. Change picks opens the interview's question picker on its prep page.
2. Show them narrows the list to the answers picked for it; Show all brings the rest back.
3. Practise them runs through the picked answers, the same run as the prep page's Practise button.

The answers picked for the next interview say so in the list.

Find an answer

Pick All, To write, To practise or Ready to see answers by what they need. Each count is next to its name.

On a computer, the chips under it pick a group, such as About you or Tell me about a time, or one of your own topics. Manage topics opens every group and topic, with their subtopics, and lets you add, rename and arrange topics. Click a group or topic to select it and Show to open it; double-click a topic to rename it. You can drag answers from the list onto a topic chip to file them there. On a phone, the button above the list picks a group or topic, and the search button opens the search.

Add questions

Choose Add at the top and pick what to add. Common questions, Write my own and From a job ad open Add questions on that tab.

1. Asked in most interviews: a library of common questions, each with what they want to know and how to answer.
2. Worth asking them: questions to ask the interviewer, with what to watch for and when to ask each one.
3. For a job: choose an application and use Suggest from the ad to get questions based on its job ad.
4. Write my own: type your question and WhizCV suggests where it belongs.

The same menu has Import notes, to bring in a document you already have (DOCX, PDF, Markdown or plain text), whose headings become topics, and Draft from my CV.

Write an answer

1. Open a question. The tags under it give its status and why, and the interviews it is picked for; an interview's tag opens its prep page. On a computer, the bar at the top names the group or topic the answer is filed in, and that name opens it in Interview prep.
2. Choose its Kind: About you, Tell me about a time, Strengths, Why this job, What if, or Money and logistics. Technical and role-specific questions go into your own topics.
3. In Your answer, choose a shape, the framework your answer follows. Situation, task, action, result is the classic STAR framework. The others are Context, action, result, learning; Problem, what you did, result; The call you made; Now, before, next; Hook, value, ask; Who, why, want; A few sentences; and Notes, a bullet outline.
4. Fill in each part in your own words. Beside the shape, the time says how long the answer takes to say against the time it should fit in, for example 0:41 of 1:00. Add cue words for the points you must not forget. To start from words you have already written, Copy from another answer, beside the shape on a computer and in the More menu on a phone, copies them in once.

Next step gives the answer's status, Not written, Written or Ready, and the one thing to do next. An answer becomes Ready once you say it out loud with nothing on screen, inside its time: Practise this answer starts that run, and on a phone Practise sits in the bar at the bottom. Changing the answer, its cue words, its question or its shape takes it back to Written; links, pictures and Notes for me don't.

When you open an answer from Interview prep or from an interview's prep page, the bar at the bottom names that list and goes to the previous or the next answer in it, so you can work through them without going back each time.

12345The tags say where the answer stands and which interview it is picked for.

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1. The tags say where the answer stands and which interview it is picked for.
2. Choose the shape your answer follows. Situation, task, action, result is STAR.
3. How long it takes to say, against the time to aim for.
4. Fill in each part in your own words.
5. Next step says what to do now, with a button to practise the answer.

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12345The tags say where the answer stands and which interview it is picked for.

A sample answer in the editor: the tags say Written, Your answer follows Situation, task, action, result with each part written, the time says how long it takes to say, and Next step says what makes it Ready.

1. The tags say where the answer stands and which interview it is picked for.
2. Choose the shape your answer follows. Situation, task, action, result is STAR.
3. How long it takes to say, against the time to aim for.
4. Fill in each part in your own words.
5. Next step says what to do now, with a button to practise the answer.

Follow-ups and topics

Under the answer, the Follow-ups tab holds the questions an interviewer is likely to ask next. Each follow-up is an answer of its own, and practice runs it straight after the first. Comes up after shows the reverse link. Notes for me, Links and Pictures are the tabs beside it, and an answer with notes but no follow-ups opens on Notes for me. On a phone they fold up under the answer, and a fold with something in it starts open.

Group answers into Your topics, for example the technical areas of your job. Topics can hold subtopics and a list of resources such as books, courses and links.

Where the AI helps

Draft it with Copilot, under Your answer, opens Copilot to write the answer, finish it or improve it from your CV, and from the job ad of the next interview it is picked for. You check every line before it goes in. Draft from my CV writes first drafts of many answers at once. Draft notes and Check my notes help with a notes answer, Generate questions adds questions to a topic, and Write my own and Suggest from the ad use AI to file and suggest questions. AI drafts are marked Draft, check it. These steps use your monthly AI allowance. Writing, organising and practising do not.