Originally published in 2024 by Aysha Akhtar. Updated in August 2026 by Elia Yang.
Most first-round interviews now happen on video calls and a growing share are asynchronous: the candidate records their answers to interview questions and AI software scores the transcript before a human sees it. Here are a few resources to help career professionals and their clients excel in virtual job interviews and evaluations.
Tips/guides
22 phone interview tips to help you nail the call (The Muse)
Career professionals can walk clients through the 22 tips in this article, which cover topics such as building a bullet-point cheat sheet to glance at during the call, dressing the part, and putting enthusiasm into voices.
16 tips for successful online video interviews (Indeed)
This Indeed checklist takes clients through the video call from the test run to the thank-you note, including finding the proper lighting, telling the interviewer when they are taking notes so it does not read as disengagement and having a hotspot ready for if the internet connection drops.
Body language strategies for virtual remote video interviews (Psychology Today)
Communication professor Stephen Furlich turns nonverbal research into instructions clients can follow on camera, such as sitting two feet from the lens, splitting gaze roughly 80% at the camera and 20% at the interviewer’s face and expecting to be more animated on video than they would be in person.
AI interviews
Personal branding for AI interviews: Preparing students for success in new recruitment tools (NACE Journal)
Written for career services staff, this NACE Journal article explains that most automated video interview systems now score candidates on their words alone, which means answers following the STAR format are still applicable and new graduates who answer briefly may be at more of a disadvantage.
AI for interview prep: Resources to add to your toolkit (CareerWise)
Articles, videos and platforms career professionals can use to bring AI into interview preparation, including tools that generate practice questions from a target role, asking contextual follow-ups and a speaking report covering pacing and filler words.
How to prepare for an AI interview (Big Interview)
This guide sets out what changes when an AI system runs the interview instead of a human and how the preparation may be different. It cites the World Economic Forum’s finding that roughly 88% of companies now use AI somewhere in hiring.
How to use GenAI to prepare for your next job interview (Harvard Business Review)
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic argues that since recruiters already use generative AI to write interview questions, candidates should go to the same source to prepare and sets out four ways to do it: researching the company, unpacking the keywords in a posting, generating likely questions and running mock sessions.
Courses
Advanced Interviewing Techniques (Coursera, University of Maryland)
Five modules on behavioural and situational questions. Because the course belongs to a specialization on interviewing in English, this makes it a useful tool for newcomer clients interviewing in a second language.
Free Interview Preparation Courses (Great Learning)
Four free self-paced courses of one to 1.5 hours each on general interview preparation, behavioural questions and answering techniques, all with completion certificates.
Interview preparation tools
Interview questions and reviews (Glassdoor)
Clients can look up the interview questions other candidates report being asked at a specific employer, along with a difficulty rating and the average number of days from application to offer.
Free AI Mock Interview (Final Round AI)
This mock interview tool builds practice interview questions from a client’s resume and a job posting and returns feedback on clarity, pacing and filler words in more than 29 languages.
Exponent
Built for technology roles, Exponent lets clients practice with each other over video through its peer mock interview feature, which is useful rehearsal for performing on camera with a stranger.
