The sudden pivot to remote testing I didn’t think I would be spending money on a private space just to talk to a computer screen. When I heard that the recent recruitment process for a company I was eyeing involved an AI-based video interview, I assumed I could just do it from my desk at…
Getting used to the screen focus I remember when I first had to do a remote interview for a public sector position. It was for a government-related safety role, and back then, the whole process felt oddly clinical compared to walking into an office building. I remember sitting in my room, adjusting the angle of…
Why the walk-in closet felt like a bad idea I really thought I was being clever when I dragged my laptop and a ring light into the walk-in closet. The logic was simple: clothes absorb sound, right? It was a sweltering July afternoon, and the air circulation inside that small space was essentially non-existent. I…
So, I had this thing I needed to do for a potential career opportunity, and it involved a ZOOM interview. It wasn’t like a regular job interview, more like one of those AI competency assessments, but they said it would be conducted via video. I’d used ZOOM before for casual chats with friends, you know,…