EZInterviewer: To Improve Job Interview Performance with Mock Interview Generator

TL;DR

EZInterviewer is a novel system that leverages real online interview data to generate realistic mock interview dialogs, improving job interview preparation especially in low-resource settings.

Contribution

The paper introduces EZInterviewer, a new approach that disentangles knowledge selection and dialog generation to effectively utilize limited interview data for realistic mock interview generation.

Findings

Achieves promising results in generating relevant interview dialogs.

Effectively trains on small datasets by disentangling dialog components.

Enhances mock interview practice for job seekers.

Abstract

Interview has been regarded as one of the most crucial step for recruitment. To fully prepare for the interview with the recruiters, job seekers usually practice with mock interviews between each other. However, such a mock interview with peers is generally far away from the real interview experience: the mock interviewers are not guaranteed to be professional and are not likely to behave like a real interviewer. Due to the rapid growth of online recruitment in recent years, recruiters tend to have online interviews, which makes it possible to collect real interview data from real interviewers. In this paper, we propose a novel application named EZInterviewer, which aims to learn from the online interview data and provides mock interview services to the job seekers. The task is challenging in two ways: (1) the interview data are now available but still of low-resource; (2) to generate meaningful and relevant interview dialogs requires thorough understanding of both resumes and job descriptions. To address the low-resource challenge, EZInterviewer is trained on a very small set of interview dialogs. The key idea is to reduce the number of parameters that rely on interview dialogs by disentangling the knowledge selector and dialog generator so that most parameters can be trained with ungrounded dialogs as well as the resume data that are not low-resource. Evaluation results on a real-world job interview dialog dataset indicate that we achieve promising results to generate mock interviews. With the help of EZInterviewer, we hope to make mock interview practice become easier for job seekers.