I used to dread interviews for one reason: I knew my stuff, but I couldn't say it cleanly.
I'd walk in with good experience, then ramble through "tell me about yourself" for three minutes, forget the example I wanted to use, and kick myself on the bus home when the perfect answer finally showed up. Classic.
Last week I had a real one coming up, so I tried something different. I opened Wispr Flow and just talked it out, like I was already in the room.
"Tell me about yourself — okay, five years in ops, started in support, moved into running a small team, obsessed with fixing messy processes. Left last role because I wanted more ownership. Looking for something where I can build, not just maintain."
Messy, full of ums, half-sentences. Wispr Flow turned it into something I could actually read back without cringing. That's when I saw the problem: I was burying the good stuff under filler.
So I did it again, tighter. Then I hit the hard questions.
"Tell me about a conflict you resolved. Okay — two people on my team disagreed on shift cover, Christmas week, both had family plans. I sat them down, we split the week, I covered the gap day myself. Nobody loved it, nobody quit, and we kept cover the whole week."
Talking it out forced me to pick a real story with a beginning, middle, and end. Typing never did that for me — I'd over-edit the first sentence and never finish. Speaking, I just got it out, then cleaned it up.
I ran through five questions in about 20 minutes, all out loud, all transcribed. By the end I had a one-page cheat sheet in my own words. Not scripted, just sharp.
The interview felt different. I wasn't reciting. I'd already said these stories three times that week, so they came out calm and short. I even remembered numbers — team size, dates, results — because I'd said them before.
Here's why voice works for this: interviews are spoken, not written. Practising by typing is like training for a run by swimming. You need the reps out loud, with the pauses and the stumbles included.
If you've got an interview coming up, try this: dictate your answers first, then read them back and tighten them once.
Start free with my link: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/hector-wheatley — and walk in already knowing what you're going to say.