They Say Don't Use AI in Interviews

I have a job interview this week and it is the first one I have had since I left corporate to start my own business. I was nervous and I was rusty, and I used AI to get ready. Not to write my answers for me. To get clear on what the job actually is before I ever pick up the phone. 🔔 Subscribe for more real, unfiltered AI experiments:    / @samanthalearnsitall   💼 My video on going back to corporate without giving up the business:    • I'm Going Back to Corporate. I'm Not Givin...   📉 What a year of building a business actually cost me:    • Watch This If You Feel Behind in Your Firs...   Here is the honest version. The last time I sat a job interview, there was nothing that could test my own stories back at me. Now there is, and almost nobody uses it for the part that actually matters. Most people open a chat and ask for interview questions and answers to memorize, which is exactly the version that makes you sound rehearsed and fake on the call. What I did instead was use it to build my own point of view about the job. It started on a dog walk. I walk my dog every day like clockwork, so that is where I did the thinking out loud. What do I want answers to on day one. Who are the people I need to influence. What tools does this team use. How big is the team. Do they travel. What are the peak seasons of work. I was preparing questions as if it were already my first day, not as if I were auditioning. Then I screenshotted the role into Claude on my phone and asked it to explain the job to me plainly, then pushed further. Why do you think this role is open. What are they actually looking for. If I already had the offer, what does week one look like, and what have I delivered by the end of it. I am applying to senior roles, which means there is no training and no ramp, so walking in with a plan matters more than sounding polished. After that I took the transcript of that whole conversation, plus the work example documents I have been writing for months and the pile of tailored resumes I already had, and I put all of it into Claude Code. I asked it to build me a two page prep document. Then I had it quiz me like a recruiter so I could rehearse out loud instead of reading. I also get into where I think the line is. Plenty of companies say do not use AI at all in a hiring process. Using AI to get clearer about your own real experience is a different thing from using it to sound like someone you are not. I say which side of that I land on and why I am willing to say it out loud. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN The questions to ask yourself out loud before you ask AI anything How to get AI to explain a job description to you like you are 10 How to write your week one plan before you even have the job How to turn your own work examples into a two page prep document Why you should never read your answers off that document Where I think the line sits on using AI in a hiring process About this video: My First Job Interview Since I Left Corporate. Here Is Exactly How I Prepared. The four things I did, in the order I did them, and the one rule that keeps it honest. CHAPTERS 0:00 My first job interview since I left corporate 0:50 Why I was nervous and rusty 1:18 Treat the phone screen like your first day of work 2:09 The dog walk where I asked myself the questions 2:45 Screenshotting the job into Claude on my phone 3:06 The questions I asked about the role 3:23 Where I think the line is on using AI 4:08 Voice memo to transcript, into Claude Code 4:37 The work examples I already had written 5:21 Building the job interview project folder 6:44 The two page prep document 7:00 Mock interviews, and letting it quiz me 7:34 Do not read your answers off the page 8:00 The takeaways 9:05 Rehearsing changes how you show up 9:23 It is not all or nothing TOOLS MENTIONED Claude: claude.ai Claude Code: claude.ai/code ChatGPT and Gemini work for this too, and I say so in the video #JobInterview #InterviewPrep #CareerAdvice #ClaudeAI #LearningInPublic