Rasmussen University uses artificial intelligence to simulate job interviews

Last week, Rasmussen University launched a free AI-powered tool to help students and alumni hone their job interview skills.

Created by online job search and resume creation company Hiration, according to a… Press releasehe New tool It is developed by ChatGPT and offers video lessons and quizzes for students to learn the basics, a virtual environment to practice interviews, the option to get feedback from AI, and the ability to share recorded interviews with counselors and peers. Users can also share job descriptions with the AI to get personalized questions and feedback. The AI tool rates the overall quality of responses, highlights the user’s strengths and areas that need improvement, and then provides ideas on what could be changed. The AI analyzes both the content and delivery of the user’s responses, tracking speech rate, tone, filler words, eye contact, and posture. Because it’s online, students can get feedback whenever their schedule allows.

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Other institutions that use Hiration’s interview prep tool include the University of Arizona, Brandeis University, and the City University of New York.

“Because AI technology simulates a wide range of interview scenarios and questions, students will enter their job search prepared to face any number of situations. This helps reduce anxiety, increase confidence, and ultimately lead to more successful outcomes,” Elizabeth Lintelman, director of career services at Rasmussen, said in a public statement.

According Hiration WebsiteIndividual schools can customize the interview preparation tool and incorporate it into curriculum or extracurricular activities. University staff can create student groups and assign practice interviews with customized parameters and scoring metrics. They can also create reviewer groups, comprised of faculty, staff, or administrators with experience in different professional fields, to provide additional feedback on the video interviews that students upload.

Interview prep represents an expansion of other services Rasmussen offers through Hiration tools, such as an AI-powered resume builder and Handshake, the university’s online career management platform that helps students and alumni find job and volunteer opportunities.

While Hiration’s ChatGPT tool is novel to Rasmussen, the idea of using AI to train students on interview etiquette is not new. In an email sent to Government Technology in 2022, Sunny Saurabh, CEO of video interviewing software company Interviewer.AI, said AI could alleviate an administrative burden on teaching staff.

“Career services (at universities), which are typically staffed by fewer than 10 faculty members, must advise hundreds of students from the same class and aim for 100 percent placement,” he wrote. “It can be a daunting task, especially when most of the companies that young college students want to join are multinational companies that typically conduct an asynchronous video interview before a human recruiter can assess candidates.”

Rasmussen’s senior professional services advisor Stephanie Daniels said in a statement public statement In 2022, digital tools like those from Hiration could help students compete in a hiring environment where companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence and automated tools to filter applications.

“It’s even more crucial now to have your resume set up and specifically aligned so that you can go through that application tracking system and get to a person,” she said.

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