As of 13 August 2026, AI can practise interview questions for a new career.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the job advert and copy its full text, including the essential criteria, desirable criteria and responsibilities.
   2. Gather your current CV and write a short truthful explanation of why you are changing career, including the relevant skills you already have and the gaps you are working on.
   3. List three to five real examples from work, volunteering, study or other responsibilities, with the situation, your action and the result for each.
   4. Paste the job advert, CV, career-change explanation and examples into a chatbot with the prompt, then answer its questions one at a time without reading a prepared script.
   5. After each round, compare the feedback and drafted wording with your CV and examples, removing any achievement, qualification or responsibility that you cannot defend.
   6. Repeat the mock interview for the five weakest questions, then practise the final answers aloud and shorten any answer that is difficult to say naturally.

   Prompt

   Act as an interview coach for this UK job application. I am changing career from [current or previous field] to [target role]. Use the job advert, my CV and my notes below to run a realistic mock interview.
   
   Job advert:
   [PASTE JOB ADVERT]
   
   My CV:
   [PASTE CV]
   
   My career-change reason:
   [WRITE TWO OR THREE SENTENCES]
   
   My real examples and achievements:
   [PASTE NOTES OR WRITE BULLET POINTS]
   
   Instructions:
   1. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Start with a mixture of motivation, transferable skills, behavioural and role-specific questions drawn from the advert.
   2. Include likely follow-up questions when my answer is vague or unsupported.
   3. Do not invent qualifications, employers, achievements, responsibilities or technical knowledge for me.
   4. After each answer, score it from 1 to 5 for relevance, evidence, clarity and credibility, then give three specific improvements and one concise example of how I could structure it more clearly.
   5. For behavioural questions, help me use a truthful STAR structure: situation, task, action and result. Keep my wording natural rather than corporate or over-polished.
   6. Flag claims I could not defend in a real interview and ask me for the missing facts instead of filling them in.
   7. At the end, list the five questions I most need to practise again, the strengths I should bring into the interview, and the gaps I should address by checking the employer's published information or the job advert.
   8. Begin by asking the first interview question, not by giving general advice.

   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.