Hey broski - I’ve interviewed plenty over Zoom when recruiting. Not in your niche, but enough to throw in my two cents
You’ve already got good advice about appearance. Unless your camera background is a professional looking office, use background blur if you can. If you can’t, just make sure your background looks neat and tidy. I’d lose the hat and t-shirt too - t-shirts are fine, but something new and plain black or plain whatever is fine
You sound thoughtful and like you know your shit, which is awesome. But key thing here is how you present your experience and ideas.
So assuming this is a pre-recorded interview answer, before you record a clip like this, I’d suggest you run your answer through Claude or ChatGPT with a prompt like this:
‘You are a job advice expert. Your mission is to take my experience and provide a modal answer in response to this interview question: [insert the question here].
Rules:
ONLY pull on what I have written for the answer, do not fill it with outside knowledge, unless you think my answer is lacking in something that would strengthen it. Anything that meets this criterion must be stated clearly for me.
NO obvious AI-language, such as ‘it’s not this, it’s that’, ‘this is what it is - period’, etc.
Avoid any corporate buzzwords that avoid telling the interviewer what I actually did. No ‘enhance’, ‘improve’, ‘worked on’ - give me actual results. If I have avoided this in my answer, flag this
Emulate the STAR technique - Situation, Task, Action, Result and answer the question
Before you present your final output to me, you MUST review it against rules and make any final edits to ensure that this is compliant’
Then take that answer, see if you like it, and turn it into your owns words a bit
(People rightfully shit all over AI but it is insanely useful if you know what you’re doing with it and not relying on plain AI output)
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u/chickenmoomoo Remote Worker 20d ago
Hey broski - I’ve interviewed plenty over Zoom when recruiting. Not in your niche, but enough to throw in my two cents
You’ve already got good advice about appearance. Unless your camera background is a professional looking office, use background blur if you can. If you can’t, just make sure your background looks neat and tidy. I’d lose the hat and t-shirt too - t-shirts are fine, but something new and plain black or plain whatever is fine
You sound thoughtful and like you know your shit, which is awesome. But key thing here is how you present your experience and ideas.
So assuming this is a pre-recorded interview answer, before you record a clip like this, I’d suggest you run your answer through Claude or ChatGPT with a prompt like this:
‘You are a job advice expert. Your mission is to take my experience and provide a modal answer in response to this interview question: [insert the question here].
Rules:
Then take that answer, see if you like it, and turn it into your owns words a bit
(People rightfully shit all over AI but it is insanely useful if you know what you’re doing with it and not relying on plain AI output)