Step 1 : Add the job
Paste the posting you are interviewing for.
FirstResume pulls out the responsibilities, the seniority and what the company does, then builds the question set that role calls for.
AI mock interview
See the questions, learn the answers, then take the AI mock interview.
See the questions this job is likely to ask, read what a good answer covers, then practise out loud with an AI interviewer.
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Know the questions before the interview.
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Step 2 : See what they will ask
Read the question and how to answer it.
Every question comes with why the interviewer asks it, what a good answer covers, an example written from your own profile, and the ideas behind it. The follow ups they might push with are listed too.
Step 3 : Practise out loud
Practise with an AI interviewer.
The interviewer reads each question to you and you answer in your own words. Your answer is written down as you speak, and any question you want to take again is one tap away.
Step 4 : Read the report
Get scored, with the lines that earned it.
Every answer is marked on content, delivery and language. Open a score and it shows the sentences behind it, with a tighter version to rehearse.
Why it matters
You cannot hear yourself while you are talking.
Every answer sounds fine from the inside. The rambling opener, the story that never reaches a result, the four hedges in one sentence: you hear none of it while you are the one talking. Rehearsing in your head gives you the same interview again. You need the answer played back and marked.
- Three scores
- on every answer: content, delivery and language, each tied to the lines that earned it
- Read it back
- every answer is written down as you speak, so you can read the words you used
- Built from the posting
- every question comes from the job you are interviewing for
Why FirstResume
You hear it back
You find out how the answer sounded.
The version in your head is fluent. The version you say has a thirty second run up, two hedges and no result at the end. Every take is transcribed and played back with the marks against it, which is the first time most people meet the answer an interviewer heard.
- Every answer transcribed, so you read what you said
- The filler, the run up and the missing result all visible
- Practise again and compare it against the earlier take
The question bank
Every question comes with its notes.
Open one and you get why the interviewer asks it, what a good answer covers, an example written from your own profile, and the ideas underneath. The follow ups they might push with are there too, ready to add to your practice set.
- Explanation, key touch points and a sample response per question
- The concepts behind each question, so a technical round is not a surprise
- Follow up questions you can add to the practice set in one click
Model answers from your history
The model answer uses your own experience.
A sample answer about somebody else teaches you very little. The model response for each question is written from your profile, so it uses the internship you did and the project you ran, which makes it something you can rehearse rather than something you have to translate first.
- Model responses built from your own profile, not a stock example
- The concepts behind each question listed underneath
- Follow ups the interviewer pushes with, ready to add
Walk in informed
A company brief to shape your examples.
Alongside the practice you get what the company sells, who runs it, how the culture rates and what changed recently. The example you choose then lands against their world, and you walk in with questions worth asking at the end.
Learn more about company research- Product, leadership, culture and recent news in one brief
- Talking points you can fold into an answer
- The same research your compatibility score and resume tailoring use
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Old way, new way
The old way
Reading questions in your head
A list of common questions and a quiet room
- You recognise the question, which feels like knowing the answer
- Nothing is spoken, so nothing about your delivery changes
- No record of what you said, so no way to compare next time
Roping in a friend
Someone reads questions at you over a call
- They ask what they would ask, not what this employer would
- Feedback stops at you were good, maybe slow down a bit
- Hard to arrange more than once, and never the night before
The new way
FirstResume
One role, one round, one report
- Questions generated from the job description you are interviewing against
- Spoken answers, one take each, the way the real thing works
- Content, delivery and language scored on every answer, separately
- The exact sentences to cut, tighten or evidence, with a rewrite to rehearse
- A company brief beside the practice, so your examples land on their problems
- Run it again at midnight the night before, as many times as you need
Reading questions in your head
A list of common questions and a quiet room
- You recognise the question, which feels like knowing the answer
- Nothing is spoken, so nothing about your delivery changes
- No record of what you said, so no way to compare next time
Roping in a friend
Someone reads questions at you over a call
- They ask what they would ask, not what this employer would
- Feedback stops at you were good, maybe slow down a bit
- Hard to arrange more than once, and never the night before
The playbook
Six things that change how an interview goes, useful whether or not you ever run a mock here.
01Rehearsing in your head is not rehearsing
Reading a question and thinking that one is fine is not practice. The gap between a fluent answer and a stumbling one shows up in the first spoken sentence, never in the plan. Say every answer out loud, at full length, once. You will hear the story with no ending, the sentence you cannot finish, and the filler you did not know you used.
02Structure beats content in the first thirty seconds
Interviewers decide early whether they can follow you. Situation, task, action, result is not a formula for its own sake. It stops you narrating chronology and burying the outcome. Give the context in two sentences, spend the middle on what you personally decided and why, then finish on the result. An answer with no result is a description of a job, not an example.
03Prepare stories, not answers
Six well chosen stories cover most behavioural interviews: a conflict, a failure, a deadline, a time you led without authority, a time you changed your mind, and the work you are proudest of. Learn the facts and the figures of each rather than a script. Then you are matching a story to a question in the room instead of trying to recall a paragraph.
04Fix the language as well as the point
Most weak answers are decent ideas said badly. Hedges like I think and kind of make a real achievement sound like a guess. Passive phrasing hides who did the work. Reading a transcript of yourself is uncomfortable and it is the fastest edit available: cut the qualifiers, name yourself as the actor, and the same story starts landing as evidence.
05Research changes the answers you choose
Knowing what the company sells, who its customers are and what changed for it this year lets you pick examples that map onto their problems rather than your favourites. It also gives you questions worth asking at the end, which is the part most candidates leave empty. Read the product page and the recent news before you rehearse, not on the morning.
06Silence, pace and the first two seconds
Nerves speed you up. Practise a deliberate pause before you begin: two seconds of silence reads as considered, while filling it reads as panic. Aim for the pace you would use explaining something to a friend, and stop once you have answered. Trailing off into extra detail is the most common way a good answer turns into an uncertain one.
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FAQ
What is an AI mock interview?
It is a practice interview you do out loud, on your own, against a specific job. FirstResume reads the posting, generates the questions that role is likely to ask, records your spoken answers, and then scores each one on content, delivery and language. The report quotes your own sentences back to you and shows what to say instead.
How is this different from reading a list of common interview questions?
A list tells you what might be asked. It cannot tell you that your answer runs four minutes, opens with thirty seconds of background, or never says what you personally decided. Those only show up when you speak. The whole point of the mock is to produce a recording and a transcript you can be marked against, question by question.
Do I have to speak out loud, or can I type my answers?
Speaking is the version that helps. Typing lets you edit as you go, which is exactly the crutch a real interview removes. You get one take per question, the way you would in the room, and the delivery score depends on hearing you.
Can I use the questions without doing a spoken mock?
Yes, and plenty of people do. The question bank stands on its own: every question carries the reasoning behind it, the points a strong answer covers, a model response and the concepts underneath. Read it on the train and never open the microphone if you would rather not.
Where do the follow up questions come from?
Each main question lists the follow ups an interviewer tends to push with once you have answered, which is where most people come unstuck. You can add any of them to your practice set, so the mock asks them the way a real panel would.
What does the feedback say?
Three scores per answer, with the reasoning attached. Content covers whether the example answers the question and lands on a result. Delivery covers pace, pauses and filler. Language covers hedging, passive phrasing and vague verbs. Each score points at the specific lines that earned it, with a suggested rewrite you can rehearse.
Are these the questions I will be asked?
No tool can promise the exact wording. The set is built from the posting, the responsibilities it lists and the seniority it implies, so the ground it covers is the ground the interview covers. Practising on questions from your own job description beats practising on a generic bank.
I have never had a real interview. Is this too advanced?
It is the opposite. The first interview you do should not be one that counts. Doing three or four mocks means the first time you say your conflict story out loud is at your desk, not in front of a panel, and you get to hear the version that did not work.
Is my recording stored or shared?
Your recordings and transcripts belong to your account. They are encrypted, never sold, never shared with employers and never used to train models, and identifying details are removed before an answer is processed. You can delete any session and its recording at any time. On an institutional licence, a careers team sees application progress and analytics, never your interview recordings.
Is the AI mock interview free?
AI mock interviews are part of the Max plan, which starts with a 7-day free trial, so you can run a full session and read the scored report before paying. The free and Premium plans cover the application side of the product: job matching, tailored resumes, cover letters, outreach and, on Premium, company research.
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