AI job interviews: What to expect and how to prepare

WE HAVE always used interviews to help us understand people better. They’re tools – albeit imperfect, human ones – for predicting who will succeed in a role and fit into a team. But what happens when the interviewer is not human?

That is the reality more candidates are starting to face, as companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI)-powered interviews in their hiring processes. These systems might sound futuristic, but the rationale behind them is very human: companies want better, fairer and more consistent hiring decisions.

Interviewers with a digital brain

At their core, AI interviews replace a human interviewer with a large language model, usually trained on a large dataset of language, behaviours or even video inputs. The model is designed to evaluate the quality of your answers, the style in which you respond, and how well you align with a pre-defined set of job-relevant criteria.