As of 13 August 2026, AI can explain a job description before your interview.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

   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 original job advert and copy the full job description, including the responsibilities, essential criteria, desirable criteria and working arrangements.
   2. Paste the advert into the prompt, then add any relevant experience, qualifications or concerns you want the explanation to take into account.
   3. Ask the chatbot to separate statements from inferences and to mark anything about the employer or role that is unknown.
   4. Open a notes document and copy the summary, prioritised responsibilities, translated jargon and interview topics into separate headings.
   5. Compare every stated requirement in the response with the original advert and delete any claim about the employer, salary, team or process that the advert does not support.
   6. For each likely interview topic, write one real example from your experience and mark any topic where you need to research the role or employer before the interview.
   7. Take the three clarification questions and choose the ones you can ask the interviewer without repeating information already clear in the advert.

   Prompt

   Explain this job description before my interview in plain British English. Separate what the advert states directly from what you are inferring. Give me: 1) a two-sentence summary of the role, 2) the main responsibilities in priority order, 3) the skills and experience the employer is most likely to test, 4) any jargon translated into ordinary language, 5) the parts that are unclear or missing, 6) five likely interview topics linked to exact wording in the advert, and 7) three questions I should ask to clarify the role. Do not invent facts about the employer, salary, team, working pattern or hiring process. If something cannot be established from the text, label it as unknown. Job description: [PASTE THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION HERE]. My relevant experience and concerns: [ADD THESE IF USEFUL].

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

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

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