Google has released a new tool to assist individuals in preparing for job interviews.


Artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are used to power the system, which is dubbed Interview Warmup. The application generates interview questions for a variety of significant technological domains. Information technology (IT) and support, project management, data analytics, and online sales and marketing are all examples of these.


Google launched the tool as part of its drive to develop "conversational AI" systems. Users may communicate with computers and devices in more natural ways with these systems, which employ messaging technology and speech recognition.


Google just made Interview Warmup available to the general public for free.


For a practice interview, users must first select the field in which they are interested. After each question is shown, users are asked to type or voice their replies into the system. The tool presently does not include video.


According to Google, the approach is based on three types of questions: background, situational, and technical.


Background inquiries enquire about a user's previous education and work experience. Situational inquiries elicit information about a job seeker's prior experiences with various work scenarios. Technical inquiries focus on a person's unique knowledge and abilities.


If the user talks into a microphone, the tool converts the user's responses to text. The Interview Warmup system then analyzes the responses and makes suggestions for improvement using AI and machine learning techniques.


For example, the system can alert a user when he or she is utilizing key phrases relevant to a certain profession. It also determines the interviewee's most frequently used terms. According to Google, this information can assist job searchers in determining whether utilizing such frequently used terms can help them land a job.


The application may also bring up any "talking points" that were utilized during the interview and recommend new ones that would be useful for other types of employment.



For those concerned about their privacy, Google claims that no information input or spoken into the tool is saved or shared. Users are requested to copy any responses they want to preserve in a separate document because the system does not store information.


During the development of the system, engineers met with people who had finished Google's job training programs and were actively seeking for jobs. The courses are part of the organization's Career Certificate Program.


Jasmin Rubinovitz is a Google Creative Lab software developer and researcher. She assisted in the creation of the Interview Warmup tool. In a video, Rubinovitz argues that there are presently more than 1.3 million high-paying technology job opportunities in the United States across several industries.


She does point out, however, that the company's professional training programs can only go so far in assisting job seekers in preparing for one of the open roles. "We discovered that interviewing was the one thing that (job applicants) struggled with," Rubinovitz added.


"So we attempted to think about how we might combine machine learning and massive language models to construct a tool to assist you prepare for a job interview," she continued.


According to Rubinovitz, the tool is meant to allow job searchers to practice their interview skills as many times as they want in a "safe setting."


Most web browsers, as well as the Android and iOS mobile operating systems, are compatible with Interview Warmup.