Use ChatGPT for mock interviews if you want to land a job, says ex-Disney recruiter

TikTokers are using ChatGPT to prepare for job interviews. SOPA Images/Getty Images

• ChatGPT’s voice feature can help you ace a job interview, according to an ex-Disney recruiter.
• Simon Taylor suggests providing ChatGPT with the job description and selecting voice mode so it will interview you. 
• The chatbot can even analyze your response and give you feedback. 

Here’s a way to use ChatGPT you may not have thought of: using its voice feature to help you practice for job interviews.

Harnessing the chatbot’s voice feature is a hack suggested by Simon Taylor, a former talent recruiter at Disney and Amazon-owned tech startup Graphiq. He told CNBC Make IT he’d tested it out and found the questions ChatGPT asked were “spot on.”

Taylor says the first step is pasting the job description into ChatGPT and telling it “I want to conduct a mock interview based on this job description.”

Then you need to select voice mode, an interactive feature on the OpenAI chatbot that enables back-and-forth conversation.

Although it may feel a little eerie speaking to an AI chatbot, “the voice on the other end is actually a very natural human voice,” Taylor told CNBC.

He said the hack is one way to practice answering potential job interview questions. It’s also useful for those who may not have friends or family members to help them prepare for interviews.

You can take it a step further by asking ChatGPT outside voice mode to evaluate your answers and give you feedback.

However, there are some limitations to using the chatbot. For example, all recruiters have different ways of structuring and asking questions in an interview, so ChatGPT won’t be able to nail them.

It may also give vague feedback. Taylor responded with one general answer like “I took an approach based on my gut intuition,” and ChatGPT ended up praising the response. However, most recruiters would expect specific, detailed answers.

“I would probably ignore some of the encouragement that it gives me and focus more on where it’s saying you missed this, or you could have done more of that,” Taylor added.

OpenAI introduced the voice feature for ChatGPT in September. Users can choose from five voices developed by professional voiceover actors. The voices are smooth and responsive and not robotic like typical smartphone assistants.

Job seekers were also using a modified form of the hack encouraged by a viral TikTok that’s had millions of views.

Hanna Goefft, the user behind the viral TikTok, also pasted the job description into the chatbot and asked it to generate job interview questions as well as analyze the description for the top 10 keywords. This was text-based as opposed to voice-based, as the feature wasn’t available at the time.

“I’m a big proponent of ‘work smarter, not harder,’ and I’m always eager to explore new technologies that will help others succeed in their job search,” Goefft told the New York Post.