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Practise the interview before it counts
A mock interview that asks the questions your target job asks, then scores the answer you gave and tells you what was missing. Behavioral, technical or federal, against a real posting.
- Interview types
- ThreeBehavioral, technical, and federal, each with its own question set.
- Scored on
- 8 dimensionsEvery answer, each out of 10, plus an overall out of 100.
- Built from
- Your resume and the postingThe questions come from the job you are targeting, not a generic list.
- Cost
- Free to startIncluded with every account.
Three kinds of interview, because they are three different rooms
Behavioral
Tell me about a time. The default, and the one most transitions are lost in, because the story is there but the shape is not. You will get the follow-up questions a real interviewer asks when an answer is vague.
Technical
The role-specific questions for the job you named. What you ran, how you decided, what you would do differently. Tuned to the posting rather than to a subject.
Federal
The structured interview federal panels run, where every candidate gets the same questions and the answers are scored against the announcement rather than compared to each other. Different game, different preparation.
What the feedback actually measures
Every answer is scored on eight things, each out of ten. This is the full list, not a sample.
Does it answer the question
The most common failure is a good story about something else. Scored first for a reason.
Structure
Situation, what you did, what happened. Coached on directly rather than by telling you to remember an acronym.
Specificity
One real event with details beats three summarised ones. "We usually did" scores lower than "in March we".
Numbers
Whether the result has a figure on it. Most veterans have the figures and leave them out.
Confidence and clarity
Hedging, over-qualifying, apologising for the background. All of it is audible and all of it is fixable.
Length
Whether the answer landed or wandered. Long answers are the second most common problem after not answering.
Relevance to this job
Whether the example connects to what the posting asked for, or is just a good story.
How it reads out loud
Jargon, acronyms, and anything a civilian panel would have to stop and decode.
How a session runs
1Name the job
Target title and company, or paste the posting. The questions are built against it.
2Pick the type
Behavioral, technical or federal, depending on which room you are walking into.
3Answer as you would out loud
Type it the way you would say it. The scoring is about the answer, not the typing.
4Read the score and the fix
Eight dimensions, an overall, and what specifically to change. Then answer it again.
5Do the ones you scored worst on
The point is not to finish the set. It is to stop losing the same question twice.
What separates a strong military answer from a weak one
Say what you did, not what the unit did
- "We" is the honest word and the wrong one in an interview
- The panel is hiring you, so the sentence needs a subject
- Credit the team at the end. Lead with your call
Bring the number
- People led, budget held, time saved, error rate moved
- If the record does not carry the figure, do not invent one, describe the scope instead
- A range you can defend beats a precise number you cannot
Translate as you speak
- No MOS codes, no unit designations, no acronyms without the words first
- Say the civilian equivalent, then the military term if it adds anything
- If you would have to explain it twice, cut it
Have the transition answer ready
- Why you are leaving, in one sentence, with no bitterness in it
- Why this job, in one sentence, that shows you read the posting
- You will be asked. Not having it ready is what makes it sound like a problem
Questions
Is this a live interview with a person?
No. It is a written practice session you can do at 4am from a barracks room, which is the point. You answer, it scores, you answer again.
Where do the questions come from?
The target job title and company you give it, or the announcement you paste in, together with your resume. That is why they are not the same questions for everyone.
What is the federal option for?
Federal panels usually run structured interviews: the same questions for every candidate, scored against the announcement rather than compared with each other. Preparing for that is a different exercise from a corporate behavioral round.
Does it tell me the right answer?
No, and it should not. It scores what you said on eight dimensions and tells you what was missing, so the answer stays yours. An answer written for you falls apart on the first follow-up question.
How many sessions can I run?
Free accounts get you started. Practising the questions you scored worst on is worth more than running new sessions, so the ceiling is rarely the constraint.
I have not interviewed in a decade. Where do I start?
Behavioral, against a job you actually want. The first score will be lower than you expect and that is the useful part, because it is happening here rather than on the call.
Lose the question here instead of on the call
Name the job, pick the type, and answer. Eight scores and a specific fix come back per answer, and you go again.
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