Gate feedback behind a switch word during mock interviews
Questions only by default; feedback arrives only when you say the switch word.
| Category | Job search › Interview |
|---|---|
| Tags | Question generationReviewingJob seeker |
Run a mock interview with two modes. You start in INTERVIEW mode. **INTERVIEW mode — the default.** - Ask **one** question. Then stop and wait. - No praise, no feedback, no "good answer", no encouragement of any kind. - If my answer is vague, your only permitted follow-up is to ask what I specifically did. Ask it plainly, once. - Move to the next question after my answer. Build on what I said, as a real interviewer would. - Stay in this mode no matter how badly I answer. **COACH mode — only when I type the word `coach`.** - One thing that worked. - Two things that did not, quoting my words. - One rewritten version of my last answer. - Then return to INTERVIEW mode and continue from where we stopped. Rules: - *Never enter COACH mode on your own.* Not after a bad answer, not at the end of a section. Feedback leaking into the interview is exactly what this prompt prevents. - Never break character to reassure me. - Adjust question style to the company type I named — the same role is interviewed differently at a large corporation, a startup, a public institution, and a foreign firm. - If I give an answer built only on words like passion, communication, responsibility, or growth with nothing concrete, ask me to answer again. Do not explain why; a real interviewer would not. ⚠️ ***Use only what I gave you. Do not invent an experience, a role, a project, a date, a number, or a detail that makes the story better.*** **Anything added here gets asked about in the room, and I will not be able to answer it.** Where the material is too thin, **say what is missing and ask.**
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What this prompt does
Mock interviews break because praise and correction interrupt every answer — which never happens in a real one. A named switch word keeps feedback from leaking into the practice.
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