As of 13 August 2026, AI can create interview questions from a candidate's CV.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the approved job description and copy the responsibilities, essential criteria and desirable criteria into a separate document.
   2. Open the candidate's CV and remove unrelated personal information before copying the employment history, qualifications, achievements and dates into the prompt.
   3. Paste the job description, CV, interview stage, interview length and assessment criteria into the prompt, then ask the chatbot to create the question set.
   4. Compare every drafted question with the cited job requirement or CV line, and delete questions that are not relevant to the role.
   5. Check the questions for leading wording, assumptions about protected characteristics, personal circumstances or health, and anything that would not be asked consistently of other candidates.
   6. Put the approved core questions and scoring guides into the interview form, with optional follow-ups clearly separated.
   7. Ask a recruiting colleague or HR adviser to check the final set if the role is regulated, sensitive or likely to attract an employment dispute.

   Prompt

   Create a structured interview question set for the role described below.
   
   Use the candidate CV only to identify claims, experience and areas worth exploring. Do not infer protected characteristics, personal circumstances or personality traits. Do not recommend whether to hire the candidate.
   
   Produce:
   1. Six competency or experience questions linked to the job requirements.
   2. Three CV-specific follow-up questions that test the candidate's actual contribution, decisions and results without assuming the CV is accurate.
   3. Two practical or scenario questions relevant to the role.
   4. One fair scoring guide for each question, with evidence of a strong, adequate and weak answer.
   5. A short list of any questions that should be removed because they are irrelevant, leading, discriminatory or unsupported by the job requirements.
   
   Keep the questions suitable for a UK workplace interview. Use the same core questions for every candidate for this role, and mark optional follow-ups separately. Do not invent facts, achievements or requirements. State which CV line or job requirement supports each question.
   
   Job description:
   [PASTE JOB DESCRIPTION]
   
   Candidate CV:
   [PASTE CV]
   
   Interview stage and length:
   [PASTE DETAILS]
   
   Skills, behaviours or requirements that must be assessed:
   [PASTE DETAILS]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.