Google launches tool to prepare job seekers for interviews

Technology giant, Google has launched Interview Warmup, a tool that enables job seekers to practise answering interview questions to enable them become more confident and comfortable with job interviews. 

The tool, which was initially announced in October, 2022 at the second Google for Africa event, was designed to help Google Career Certificates learners prepare for job interviews, but it is also available for everyone to use.

Interview Warmup enables job seekers to practise answering questions carefully selected by industry experts and uses machine learning developed by Google Research to transcribe their answers and help them discover ways to improve.

According to head of brand and reputation at Google Africa, Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, individuals preparing for interviews can simply start practising with a simple click on the homepage, choose the kind of job they are interviewing for, and then do a practice interview that consists of five randomly selected questions or individual interview questions.

Users, she also said will be able to see insights: patterns detected by machine learning that can help them discover things about their answers, including job related terms, words used most often and talking points that are mentioned in each answer, so that users can see how much time they spend talking about areas like their experience, skills and goals.

“Africa has the youngest population in the world, with 70percent of sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 30.  Many of them are creative and entrepreneurial, and over the next five years, 300million people will come online in Africa. We are excited about Interview Warmup because it shows how new technologies have the potential to help young people in Africa hone the skills needed to grow their careers.

“The tool can help create more opportunities for African job seekers. As important as it is to learn the skills needed to perform well on a new job, it is even  more important to learn the skills needed to qualify for roles,” Aderemi-Makinde said.

Interview Warmup is available at grow.google/interview-warmup and can be accessed on the latest versions of Chrome on OSX, Windows, Android, as well as the latest version of Safari on iOS devices.