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name: practice-for-a-job-interview
description: "Paste the job posting and your background, get the likely questions, then practice one at a time with feedback."
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# Practice for a job interview

Paste the job posting and your background, get the likely questions, then practice one at a time with feedback.

## Inputs

Ask the person for any of these you do not already have:

- **The job posting (paste the text)** (`{{posting}}`). Example: Customer Success Manager. You'll own a book of 40 mid-market accounts, run onboarding and renewals, and work with product on feedback. 3+ years in a customer-facing role, comfortable with data, great communicator.
- **Your background, in your own words** (`{{background}}`). Example: 5 years in retail management, last 2 years as an account coordinator at a software company. Good with people, less confident talking about numbers. Never done renewals.

## Steps

Work through these one at a time and check with the person after each one.

### Step 1

I have an interview for this job: {{posting}}
My background: {{background}}
List the ten questions I am most likely to be asked, grouped under: about the role, about my experience, and "tell me about a time" questions. For each, add one line on what the interviewer is really trying to find out. Point out the two or three questions that are hardest for someone with my background, and why. Do not invent experience for me. If the posting or my background is missing something you need (like whether it is a first-round or final interview), ask.

### Step 2

Now play the interviewer. Ask me one question at a time from that list, starting with an easy one, and wait for my answer. After each answer, step out of the role and give me: one thing that worked, one thing to change, and if useful, a tightened version of my answer in my own words, kept truthful. Then ask the next question. Stop after six questions and give me a short summary: what I should lead with, what to prepare more, and one question I should ask them.

## Afterwards

Ask the person "Did it work? (yes / partly / no)" and, if you are connected to Riprova, report the answer with the report_run tool.