1 of 12

Generative AI

Interview Prompts 

John Gartin (he/him/his)

johnggartin@gmail.com

JohnGartin.com

​

2 of 12

2

Interview Prompts Step by Step

        • In the next series of slides you can type or paste as ‘plain text’ each example ‘Prompt’ to see how Prompt Design and Prompt Engineering works in creating replies and responses to your requests.

​

        • Following these steps, you will learn to create your own Interview Machine in a Generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, etc.) that you can use for any job interview.

​

        • Insider Info: Generative AI can frequently be referred to as GenAI

3 of 12

3

Prompt Engineering

        • Use the INSPIRE© method and logic when you create a prompt. Try to include elements each of the following to help ‘power up’ your prompts (that is a significant part of Prompt Engineering).
                • Intention
            • Narrative
            • Specific
              • Persona
              • Iterate & Optimize
            • Restrictions
            • Engagement

​

INSPIRE: https://www.johngartin.com/blog-1-1/the-inspire-methodology

4 of 12

4

Some of the Free Generative AI Models Out There…

        • ChatGPT

https://chat.openai.com/  

​

        • Google Gemini

https://gemini.google.com/

​

        • Claude

https://claude.ai/

​

        • Microsoft CoPilot

https://copilot.microsoft.com

​

        • Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/

5 of 12

5

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Basic

        • What are the top 10 Interview Questions and their rationale?

​

        • A very basic prompt that will get you the ‘usual suspects’ of interview questions. It is a good bet the #1 question will be “tell us about yourself.”

​

        • Pro Tip: Make sure you do have a 1min ‘elevator speech’ on how your history/background/experiences connect to the job and organization in answering “tell us about yourself.”

6 of 12

6

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Specificity

        • What are the top 10 Interview Questions for {specific job} in {specific industry} and their rationale?

​

        • Here we are adding a significantly more power in giving the prompt more ‘specificity’ for your use case in {specific job} and {specific industry} variables.

​

        • Pro Tip:
          • Exact name of the Specific Job you are seeking
        • Be clear in the name of the Specific Industry you want to work in

​

7 of 12

7

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Engagement

        • What are the top 10 Interview Questions for {specific job} in {specific industry} and their rationale?  Give me two great answers for each question.

​

        • In this prompt we now leverage the ‘engagement and effectiveness’ of the prompt in providing answers and examples to the user.

8 of 12

8

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Intention

        • What are the 10 best behavioral-based Interview Questions for {specific job} in {specific industry}?  Give me two great answers for each question.

​

        • Now we give the prompt more ‘intention’ asking for behavioral-based interview questions, which are more likely to be asked in sophisticated interviews. Be ready with your story telling skills to answer behavioral-based interview questions.

​

9 of 12

9

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Context

        • "What are the 10 best behavioral-based Interview Questions for {specific job} in {specific industry}?  Give me two great answers for each question in the STAR format."

​

        • In your answer address the following four elements of STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result 

​

        • We have now asked the GenAI to provide us, using ‘context,’ of a desired objective and outcome with each answer in the STAR format.

10 of 12

10

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Persona

        • This Generative AI model is a career development professional and executive coach who has been working with job seeking clients for 30 years on their interview skills and helping them with interview practice.
        • What are the 10 best behavioral-based Interview Questions for {specific job} in {specific industry}?  Give me two great answers for each question in the STAR format.

​

        • Now you are adding the ‘persona’ of an expert to shape the GenAI from a great generalist to a highly specific specialist. Note the high level of expertise we have given our persona, stating they have been working with clients for “30 years.”

​

​

11 of 12

11

Interview Prompts Step by Step: Narrative

        • This Generative AI model is a career development professional and executive coach who has been working with job seeking clients for 30 years on their interview skills and helping them with interview practice.

​

        • What are the 10 best behavioral-based Interview Questions for the job description below? 

​

        • Pasting in the job description of a job role to which you are applying gives the background information, the ‘Narrative,’ to the GenAI prompt. This will give the output a high level of specificity & actionable output.

12 of 12

12

Interview Prompts Step by Step: INSPIRE

        • This Generative AI model is a career development professional and executive coach who has been working with job seeking clients for 30 years on their interview skills and helping them with interview practice.
        • Ask me, one at a time, the 10 best behavioral-based Interview Questions for the job description below. After my answer give me two points of feedback based on the STAR format to make my answer better. Then provide the next question.

​

        • Putting it all together we now have an interview machine using the job description to practicing questions, learn an interview system, getting feedback, and all at your own pace and availability. PRO TIP: You can use the microphone feature to do this in audio… “practice like you play”