Big Interview is a job interview training tool used to prepare for interviews and practice and improve interview skills. The platform offers lessons on interviewing, curated sets of questions for users, AI generated feedback on recorded answers, and resources for building strong interview answers.
Big Resume (part of the Big Interview suite) provides lessons on resume best practices, provides downloadable resume templates, and uses customized scoring guides to provide AI feedback (called ResumeAI). It also allows users to create an AI generated cover letter by providing their resume and a job description.
For more detailed information about Big Interview & Big Resume, review Getting Started with Big Interview and Big Interview’s Help Center.
All students, employees, and alumni of UW-Madison have user access to Big Interview and Big Resume by logging in with their NetID.
How Can Staff Utilize Big Interview & Big Resume?
Staff can utilize Big Interview & Big Resume in multiple ways, including:
- Introducing students to the tools so they can explore on their own!
- Encouraging students to complete specific educational lessons within Big Interview or Big Resume. The tools have a wealth of videos focused on interviews, job search and networking strategies, negotiation advice, resume and cover letter writing, and more.
- Promoting the AI-feedback tools, include practice sets in Big Interview and the ResumeAI scanning feature within Big Resume, where students can get initial feedback 24/7.
- Exploring the tool themselves to thereby better educate students on the features or to practice interviewing for their own professional development.
- Becoming an org admin in the system, which gives higher-level permissions to:
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- Create custom interview questions or course assignments in Big Interview to track completion or provide additional feedback.
- Create a customized resume scoring guide in Big Resume to track completion (for a class or career services workflow) or provide additional resume feedback.
Interested in learning more about Big Interview & Big Resume, as well as ideas to utilize within career services? Watch this Overview Session for Staff.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How do I get access to Big Interview and Big Resume?
To help students navigate Big Interview or Big Resume or have them complete a pre-created lesson, staff do NOT need to have administrative privileges in the system. All staff, faculty, students, and alumni with active NetIDs have access by logging in with their NetID through this link or by adding the Big Interview tile in MyUW. Refer to the Getting Started KB for advice and helpful information to share with students.
If a staff member wishes to create custom interview question sets or course assignments for students (in Big Interview) or a customized resume scoring guide (in Big Resume), they will need organizational administration access. Request org admin access by completing this form and refer to helpful resources and best practices in the Getting Started KB.
Where can I learn more about Big Interview & Big Resume?
You can learn more by visiting the following resources:
- Big Interview (and Big Resume) Overview & Getting Started KBs
- Recorded Overview Session for Staff
- Career Services Staff Tools
- Big Interview & Big Resume Student focused websites
- Big Interview & Big Resume Help Center
What promotional resources are available for Big Interview & Big Resume?
The following resources can be used to promote these tools and share information with students:
- Student-facing webpage for Big Interview and Big Resume
- Within the Getting Started KB, there is “Information to Share with Students” content within the “Best Practices & Training” section of “Considerations for Organization Administrators”
- Marketing materials like logos, fliers, and email templates are also available