As of 13 August 2026, AI can prepare for a graduate scheme interview.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   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 graduate scheme advert and the employer's current careers page, then save the full job description, stated values, interview format and any assessment-centre information.
   2. Gather your current CV and a short list of real examples from study, work, volunteering, societies or caring responsibilities that show relevant skills, including what you did and what happened.
   3. Paste the job description, your CV, the checked employer information and the interview format into the prompt, leaving unknown details marked as unknown rather than asking the model to guess.
   4. Ask the chatbot to identify the capabilities being tested and turn your examples into possible STAR answer structures, then compare every factual detail against your CV and memory.
   5. Run the one-question-at-a-time mock interview, answering aloud before typing a summary of your answer so that the feedback covers both content and spoken delivery.
   6. Practise the follow-up questions and rewrite only the answers that contain unsupported claims, vague evidence or wording you would not naturally use.
   7. Use the final checklist to rehearse your opening introduction, motivation for the scheme, key examples and questions for the interviewer, then check employer-specific facts on the employer's current website before the interview.

   Prompt

   Help me prepare for a UK graduate scheme interview. Use only the information I provide and clearly label any assumption. Do not invent achievements, responsibilities, company facts or technical knowledge.
   
   Employer: [employer name]
   Graduate scheme and role: [scheme and role]
   Job description: [paste the full job description]
   My CV or experience summary: [paste it]
   Employer information or links I have checked: [paste relevant information]
   Interview format: [for example, competency interview, strengths interview, assessment-centre interview, technical interview or unknown]
   Interview date or preparation deadline: [date or unknown]
   
   First, identify the capabilities and evidence the interview is likely to test from the supplied job description. Then create a preparation plan for the available time. Ask me one realistic interview question at a time and wait for my answer. After each answer, give concise feedback under these headings: evidence, structure, relevance, clarity and what to improve. Help me turn my real examples into clear STAR answers without changing the facts. Include follow-up questions an interviewer might ask. Also give me a short list of questions I could ask the interviewer, based only on the supplied information.
   
   At the end, produce a mock interview covering the likely question types and a final checklist. Flag anything that needs checking against the employer's current website or my own experience. Keep the language natural for spoken UK English and do not write answers that I could not honestly say in an interview.

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

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.