Interview practice on your own CV
AI job interview practice on your own CV: Kate interviews you out loud
Quick answer
In SpeakBase you upload your CV (PDF, Word, slides, a photo or pasted text) and Kate, the AI speaking tutor, becomes the hiring manager: she asks out loud about the companies, roles, achievements and gaps in YOUR CV, follows up on your answers, and corrects your English in real time with the explanation in your native language. Personal details are removed before processing and the CV is not stored. The feature is part of Premium.
Most interview prep tools hand you ten generic questions. But in a real interview nobody asks "tell me about a challenge" in a vacuum: they ask why you left your last company, what exactly you did on the project you listed, and what happened in the year missing from your CV. You can only rehearse those questions with an interviewer who has read your CV. That is what SpeakBase does.
How it works, in three steps
- In SpeakBase Talk pick the "Interview me on my CV" card and upload a file: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, a photo of your CV, or just paste the text.
- The app distils the CV into a short brief of roles, skills and achievements, after removing emails, phone numbers, links and identifying details.
- Kate opens a spoken interview as the hiring manager for a role that fits your CV and runs it from "tell me about yourself" to "do you have questions for me?".
What Kate asks
Every question is grounded in what your CV says. Two years at a logistics company? She asks what a normal day looked like there. A gap or a career change? She asks about it politely, the way a real interviewer would. Each answer gets a follow-up: an example, a number, a result, what you would do differently.
- Walk me through your background
- What did you actually do in your role at that company?
- What did you achieve there, with numbers if you can?
- Why did you leave?
- Tell me about a difficult situation with a colleague or client
- What are your salary expectations?
The corrections: why this is a lesson, not just a simulation
Kate is a speaking tutor first. When you say "I am working there five years" she corrects it to "I have been working there for five years" and explains why in your language. She matches the questions to your level: short, concrete questions and a model answer when a beginner gets stuck; behavioural questions and a push for precise professional wording for stronger speakers. You finish with a summary of the key corrections.
Privacy: what happens to your CV
- Emails, phone numbers and links are stripped from the text before it is sent for processing.
- The brief Kate receives leaves out your name, address, date of birth, age and ID numbers.
- Neither the file nor the brief is stored on the server. They exist for the current lesson only, and every upload is a new lesson.
What is different here
Some tools generate interview questions from a CV in text. Some apps practise spoken English on general topics. SpeakBase combines the three things that actually prepare you for an interview: a live voice conversation, questions drawn from your own CV, and corrections to your English as you speak, explained in your native language (Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Spanish or any of the ten explanation languages).
Frequently asked questions
How do I practise a job interview in English with AI?
Upload your CV to SpeakBase and choose "Interview me on my CV". Kate interviews you out loud about your own roles and skills, asks follow-up questions and corrects your English in real time. 15 to 20 minutes a day in the week before the interview is enough for your answers to come out fluently.
Which files can I upload?
PDF, Word (DOCX), PowerPoint (PPTX), a text file, a photo of your CV (PNG, JPEG, WEBP or HEIC), or pasted text, up to 8 MB.
Is my CV stored?
No. Emails, phone numbers and links are removed before processing, and the brief Kate works from leaves out your name, address, date of birth and ID numbers. None of it is stored on the server.
Is it free?
The CV interview is part of Premium: $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year (39 NIS / 390 NIS in Israel), with up to 20 minutes of conversation a day. The first 5-minute SpeakBase lesson is free, so you can meet Kate first.
Can I be interviewed in another language?
Yes. The interview runs in the language you study on SpeakBase: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Greek, Arabic or Hebrew, with explanations in your native language.
My level is basic. Is this for me?
Yes. For beginners Kate keeps questions short and concrete ("What was your job there?"), accepts short answers and gives a model answer when you are stuck, while staying in the interviewer role.
