How to Conquer the Job Interview Jitters when you're interviewing with an AI.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Imagine you're getting ready for a job interview.

What do you do to prepare?

If you're me, you have your younger sister do a mock interview.

You also panic by a professional-looking work bag to bring with you.

Now imagine you learn your interviewer is an AI.

This is becoming a more common occurrence.

Employers are outsourcing not just the screening of applications to artificial

intelligence, but also the interviewing. Ray Smith wrote about how to prepare for this experience

for the Wall Street Journal. For the reporting, he did a couple job interviews with an AI, and he said

they were nerve-wracking. So what happens is, you know, you're sitting there, you're trying not to look at yourself. You're trying to look at the camera. And you get a question. You basically just get a question. There's no sort of, hi, how are you doing or nice to meet you? And it might start off with something like, you know, what are your thoughts on customer service or what makes good customer service to you?

And then you will have to reply by video. And so I found myself sort of like floundering and

really nervous because I just wasn't sure. I wasn't getting any cues. And so I think it just

takes a lot of getting used to. Do you know what happens after the interview? Does the AI then

give recommendations to the human employer?

My understanding is that, yes, what happens is the video, once it's completed, it is submitted

to an HR or hiring manager, and so an actual human will review.

But there is an assessment. The AI system gives an assessment of how you did on the video. And these hiring platforms claim they're not scoring you on things like eye contact or even, you know, nervousness or if you sound flustered. And so there's debate about how

much of that is true that they don't actually track that. And there's some legal questions about

whether they could, even if, you know, they did. But there is an assessment. And the assessment is

basically how well you answered the questions. And if the questions sort of

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