How a practice interview runs
No form, no list of questions to work through. It is a conversation, and it behaves like one.
Allow the microphone
Your browser asks for the microphone once. Without that permission nothing starts - there is deliberately no typed variant, because it would remove exactly the part that is hard.
One question at a time
The interviewer asks a single question and then waits. If your answer stays vague, it probes. The arc runs from a short greeting through technical questions taken from the posting to behavioural questions, and ends with your own questions.
Cutting in is allowed
You can speak over an answer, the way you would in a real conversation; the playback stops. Muting and ending are available at any point.
Read along, then stop
While you talk, the transcript builds up beside the conversation - your sentences and theirs. The moment you end it, that transcript becomes your feedback.
- Allow the microphone
- One question at a time
- Cutting in is allowed
- Read along, then stop
- A session is set up to run about a quarter of an hour; after that the connection expires. The remaining time is shown while you talk.
- Two practice interviews per day. That is not a nudge to be frugal, it is the limit set in the product.
- German or English, chosen before you start. The voice then stays in that language.
The questions come from your posting
What separates this from a generic question list is not the wording but the source: the conversation knows the posting and your CV before it asks the first question.
The text of the job posting
The technical questions come from what the posting actually says. Nothing about the company is invented - if it is not in the posting, it does not come up.
Your master profile
Roles, education, skills and languages go in as your CV. Your contact details do not: a contact-free version is built for the prompt, and only your first name travels with it, so you can be addressed by name.
The gaps from the job check
If you had the posting checked first, the practice interview knows where you and the job do not line up - and asks the uncomfortable questions about exactly that. Those are the ones that come up for real.
There is a written way too
The job check report lists the questions one by one. You drop in a few notes and get a written answer back, built from your CV - nothing is invented. Without Pro a few of those answers per month are free; saying them out loud is the Pro part.
- The text of the job posting
- Your master profile
- The gaps from the job check
What separates this from a generic question list is not the wording but the source: the conversation knows the posting and your CV before it asks the first question.
How to get there
A practice interview needs a job to be about. That job appears once you have a posting checked: the evaluation is where the gaps, the risky questions and the question list you can also work through in writing come from.
Check a posting and get the questionsWhat the feedback says
When you end the call, the transcript goes through one review. What comes back is not a score but a list you can take into the next round.
Overall impression and a mark
Two or three sentences on how the conversation came across, plus a mark from 1 to 5. The mark is the short version; the sentences under it are the substance.
What carried
The moments where your answer landed. Only what is in the transcript gets praised - the instruction to the review is explicit: no praise without evidence.
What to practise
The other list, each point concrete enough to do something differently next time. Not general advice, but what went wrong in this conversation.
Your answer, and a better one beside it
For individual questions you get three things side by side: the question, a short version of what you said, and a better version. Where it fits, the better version follows the STAR method - situation, task, action, result.
Example view
- What carried
- What to practise
- Your answer, and a better one beside it
Two or three sentences on how the conversation came across, plus a mark from 1 to 5. The mark is the short version; the sentences under it are the substance.
What is left afterwards
None of it is stored. Transcript and feedback live in your browser tab until you reload it; no recording and no text stays behind on the server. If you want to keep something, copy it out before you move on.
What you need for it
Four things have to come together. You probably have three of them already if you are in the middle of applying.
A filled-in master profile
Without a CV in your profile there is nothing to talk about. The practice interview stops before it starts and sends you to your profile.
A checked job posting
The conversation is always about one specific job, never about nothing in particular. Start without one and the page sends you back to the application tracker.
A microphone and a quiet moment
A headset is plenty. Plan for a quarter of an hour in which you can talk out loud without interruption.
A Pro plan
Practising out loud is reserved for Pro, and that is enforced on the server rather than only in the interface. The questions themselves and the written answer coach are reachable in the job check report without Pro.
Where your voice goes
The audio goes from your browser straight to the speech model at Google, without passing through Jobvin. For the feedback, the transcript is sent to our server once, processed there and not filed away. According to the provider, your voice is not used for training.