How does Interview Practice work?
Interview Practice is a monthly add-on, on any plan. It is a live interview with Fitread's AI interviewer, a spoken conversation of 10, 15 or 20 minutes. Pick a general interview, a job title, or an advert or saved job, and Fitread AI (it uses Claude, Anthropic's AI) writes the main questions from it and your CV.
Pick one of your saved CVs, or use Add a CV in the set-up to add a file (PDF, Word or text) or paste its text. It is saved to your CV manager, like a CV you add there, and you can delete it there.
The interviewer asks follow-up questions about what you said, repeats a question when you ask, and keeps to time. How the call works is in the next answer.
After the call, feedback on each answer comes from Fitread AI, from your words only. Pace, filler words, power words, pauses and negative phrases are counted by Fitread's own code from the words of the call and when they reached the page.
The stronger answer uses only what you said and your CV, and says "add your result" where a fact only you know is missing.
Your practices stay until you delete them, and practices you answered one question at a time before the live interview stay there to review. Cancel the add-on any time in Manage billing on the Interview Practice page.
Without the add-on you can have one free 5-minute interview with a free account, one per person. Its report shows your overall score, the words of the call and your recording; the rest of the report is kept and opens in full once you have the add-on. Free interviews have a daily limit across Fitread; when it is reached, try again the next day.
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How does the live interview work?
Your browser asks for your microphone first, and for your camera only if you want eye-contact coaching (it is optional). During the call your voice goes to ElevenLabs, our speech supplier, which turns it into words and gives the interviewer its voice; the interviewer's words come from Claude, Anthropic's AI. Fitread never gets your voice, and Fitread keeps no recording of the call.
Ask the interviewer to repeat a question, or for a moment to think, whenever you like. The interviewer's words sit at the top of the screen, just under where most cameras are, so reading them keeps your eyes near the camera. The screen also shows the time left, the question you are on, Mute, captions, your devices and End interview.
When the call ends, Fitread keeps its words, has ElevenLabs delete the conversation, and writes your feedback, a stronger answer and the measures.
An interview counts towards the month's fair use once its call connects, and so do the minutes of your calls. Setting one up doesn't count. A call that never connects uses nothing, and you can start it again from the same interview. If your microphone is blocked, allow it in your browser and press Try again; if the live interviewer can't be reached, try again in a few minutes.
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What is the AI review, and can it change my score?
The AI review is written by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, from your CV and the advert. It is labelled "Written by AI".
It is written around the match rate and cannot change it or any other figure.
Anything it says about you is checked against your CV. A sentence naming a skill, number, date or name that your CV does not contain is removed.
AI reviews are limited each day: 5 for a guest, 10 on the free plan and 60 on Pro. A limit never stops the reading itself.
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Does Fitread show my CV to recruiters or employers?
Fitread never shows your CV to a recruiter, agency or employer unless you send it to a specific advert or share it with someone you choose.
Fitread is its own site with its own database, and no other site reads your Fitread CVs.
You can delete any saved CV, or all your Fitread data, at any time from your account.
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