How to Do Practice Interviews on Skills First

Learn how to use SkillsFirst to conduct mock interviews and strengthen your interview skills before applying for jobs, internships, or graduate programs. This step-by-step guide walks students through accessing the platform, selecting practice interview questions, recording responses, and reviewing performance to build confidence and improve communication skills. Practice interviews help users prepare for common interview scenarios and receive valuable feedback in a low-pressure environment.

Practice for job and internship interviews on SkillsFirst

1. Build Your Own Custom Interviews
   • Create your own interview questions or choose from 12,000 + questions shared by SkillsFirst.
2. Take Interviews Shared by Your Organization
   • Take custom interviews shared by organization members or interviews shared by SkillsFirst with your organization.
3. Take occupation prescreening interviews.
   • Take sample occupation prescreening interviews shared by SkillsFirst with your organization that include pre-recorded coaching for each interview question.
4. Choose the format of your interview answers.
   • Choose from text, audio/video, audio only, audio/video link, or upload file options for your interview answers.
5. Practice on the go
   • Practice interviewing on your mobile device. Record and upload video interview question answers, or add text or audio/video link answers.
6. Practice together
   • Share interviews, questions 1:1 with other members or share with organization groups and control permissions to your content.
7. Practice for any scenario
   • Find practice interviews for almost any situation, including behavioral, consulting, graduate school, hiring manager, job fair, pressure, screening, and technical interviews, and many others.
8. Submit for review
   • If your organization has enabled the Review Center, you can submit your interview content for review by approved reviewers.