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How the interview cheatsheet works
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In short
The interview cheatsheet is a document, not a conversation. You paste one job advert and your CV, pick the round you are facing, and usually in under a minute you get an editable page: a self-introduction timed at about 110 seconds, three strengths tied to quoted lines from the advert, 24 tick-boxes each pairing a literal phrase from the advert with your own evidence, a 45-minute pacing table, and a vocabulary block. Every line can be rewritten, ticked and printed. Creating one needs a free account.
Practise the interview out loud, and see how you scored
An AI panel asks the questions and you answer by voice, the way the real call goes. Afterwards you get a pass probability and the moments that cost you.
Start a live practice interviewThe grounding is the whole point. A question list found online applies to every job and therefore to none. This document is built from exactly two inputs — the advert in front of you and your own record — and it quotes the advert word for word rather than paraphrasing it, so what you rehearse is what the employer actually wrote.
The second design decision is what happens when the advert asks for something your CV cannot back up. The instruction the generator works under is explicit: your CV is the sole source of biographical fact, and an answer is left empty rather than invented. Empty boxes look like a defect on first reading and are the most useful part of the page — they are the list of gaps the interviewer will find too.
This page documents the tool precisely enough to be checked: what it requires, what the finished document contains, which counts are enforced in code and which are only instructions, what is free, and what it explicitly does not do. Every product statement here was read in the source on 6 September 2026 rather than recalled.
Share of adverts stating a language requirement that name at least one language other than the language of the advert text. Open adverts on SwissJobs.app, read 5 September 2026, apprenticeships and internships excluded.
- Four steps: role basics (title, company, round type), job description, about you, generate. The Next button unlocks at 80 characters of advert and 80 characters of CV.
- Six round types: HR intro, hiring manager, technical, panel, final round, other. The type sets the tone and the length of the pacing table — 45 minutes, cut to 30 for an HR intro.
- Three strengths are enforced in code: always exactly three, padded with empty fields if the model returns fewer. The 24 boxes are instructed, not enforced — a thin advert can produce fewer.
- Your CV is the only permitted source of biographical fact. Where the advert asks for something it cannot support, the answer is left blank instead of fabricated.
- Output is written in your interface language, while proper nouns and the quoted advert phrases stay in the original. 66% of open adverts state a language requirement at all, and 30.7% of those name more than one language.
- Editing, ticking and adding notes happen in the document itself and save automatically; beside it sit a chat for changes described in words, a version list, and a duplicate button.
- The account is asked for at generation, not before. The free-document ceilings that apply to CVs and letters — five a day, ten a rolling week — are not applied to cheatsheets.
What you give it, and the minimums
The wizard has four steps. Step one asks three things: job title, company, and the round type from a list of six. Both text fields are required and capped at 200 characters. Step two is the advert, pasted as text; the Next button stays inactive below 80 characters, and a counter under the box shows how much you have pasted.
Step three is your side: the CV as plain text, again from 80 characters, plus an optional motivation letter and a field for skills that are not in the CV. Up to three PDF or Word files can be attached; their text is extracted and treated as another note. Each of these fields is trimmed to roughly 48 thousand characters when stored — about twenty dense A4 pages, which is generous for one advert and one CV.
Step four shows a summary with the character counts and the number of attachments, then starts the generation. The progress bar names the blocks as they are built. The wizard promises about 30 seconds and the waiting screen says under a minute; both are closer to the truth than any single figure we could print here.
What the finished document contains
Eight blocks, always in the same order. A header naming company, role and date. Then Tell me about yourself: five to eight short paragraphs built for about 110 seconds spoken, the first paragraph your current role in one line, the last one why this role now.
Next comes a calibration question — something you ask early to hear what your interviewer is really after. Then three strengths, each attached to a literal quote from the advert and the sentence you would say. The core is the 24 boxes in four to six groups: on the left a short phrase from the advert, on the right your answer drawn from your CV, and a checkbox in front of it.
Three smaller blocks close the page: a coverage check (did everything get said, are there open concerns), a pacing table with time columns across 45 minutes — shortened to 30 for an HR intro — and a mirror block that sets the advert's vocabulary against the words in your answers. One precision point: the three strengths are hard-coded and padded if the model returns fewer, whereas 24 is a written instruction rather than a guarantee. A very short advert tends to come back with fewer lines.
Where the content comes from
There are exactly two sources: the advert you pasted and what you said about yourself. Nothing is looked up on the web, no company profile is fetched, no salary data is consulted. The instruction is blunt on this: the CV is the sole source of employers, dates, titles, metrics and technologies, and none of it may be invented.
Quotes are kept literal, with no rewording. That is why some boxes read awkwardly — it is the advert's language, not ours, and awkward is what you want when you are trying to recognise a phrase across a table.
It also means the tool has no opinion about whether your CV is true. If a claim there is inflated, it will be inflated on the cheatsheet, in front of someone who may ask a follow-up question about it. The document repeats your record; it does not audit it.
Which language it writes in
The cheatsheet is written in whatever language your interface is set to — German, English, French or Italian — regardless of the language of the advert or the CV. The exceptions are proper nouns, role titles, technology and tool names, and the quoted advert phrases, which stay in the original.
That split answers something specific about this market. Of the open adverts on SwissJobs.app that state a language requirement at all, 30.7% name more than one language, and 31.8% name at least one language other than the one the advert itself is written in. Broken down by the language of the advert: German-written adverts 28.1%, English 33.0%, French 41.8%, Italian 44.5%.
For an English-speaking candidate this is the practical warning on the page. An English advert is not a promise of an English interview: among English-written adverts that state a language requirement, roughly a quarter still name German. Reading your notes in the language you are fluent in, while quoting the requirement in the language the employer used, prepares you for both rooms. The interface language switch changes the output for the next document, and the chat beside an existing one can translate it on request.
What you do with it afterwards
The finished sheet is a working surface, not a printout. Any text can be clicked and overwritten, groups take extra lines, lines can be deleted, and every block has room for free notes underneath. The boxes are real checkboxes with a running count of how many you have ticked. Saving happens automatically a moment after you stop typing.
On the right sits a chat for changes described in words — make the opening shorter, add a question about leadership. Files can be attached there too, when a newer version of your CV should be worked in. Each such change produces a new version and the older ones stay in the version list; a long typing session collapses into a single version rather than dozens.
A duplicate button copies an existing sheet, which is what you want for a second round at the same company. The Print button opens your browser's print dialogue, where the sheet can also be saved as PDF; the controls are hidden from the printed page, so only the document prints.
What is free, and where the account is asked for
Without an account, the tool page shows what the cheatsheet does, with an example. The account is asked for at creation: the call that starts the generation refuses an unauthenticated request. That is stricter than the CV and cover-letter generators, which run anonymously and only ask to save and from the second document. We write it down because a tool description that hides a gate is found out on the first click.
The account itself is free and creating a cheatsheet costs nothing. The document ceilings of the CV builder — five a day, ten per rolling week — are not applied to cheatsheets in the code today; they draw on a different budget from CVs and letters. That is the current state, not a promise for all time, and this paragraph changes if the code does.
Above that sits the paid tier for the rest of the product: seven days free, then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year, cancellable at any time. The cheatsheet does not require it.
What it explicitly does not do
It does not ask you questions and it does not listen. There is no voice, no recording, no feedback on pace or filler words. Rehearsing out loud is separate work and this is the wrong tool for it — it produces the material, not the drill.
It does not fetch an advert from a link. You paste the text; a URL on its own is not enough. It also exports no file of its own: the way out is your browser's print dialogue, which produces a PDF. There is no Word export here — that belongs to the CV builder.
It knows neither the person across the table, nor the company's internal process, nor the salary band for the role. It is not advice and it is not proof of anything towards an unemployment office. And it promises no offer: the only defensible claim is mechanical — someone with a prepared example against every requirement in the advert has less to improvise in the room.
How to check it in five minutes
First, read three boxes and find the quote in the advert. It has to be there word for word. A requirement that does not appear in the advert means you are holding a document that prepares you for a different conversation.
Second, take three answers and find the evidence in your CV. Every figure, employer and technology has to be traceable. This is the test general-purpose tools fail, and it takes two minutes.
Third, count the empty fields. They are not a malfunction; they are the list of places where the advert asks for more than your record supports. Those points belong on a separate sheet before the interview — either you do have an example that is missing from your CV, in which case add it in the notes field and regenerate, or you do not, in which case you decide on an honest answer beforehand rather than in the room.
Product statements read in the tool's own source on 6 September 2026 (wizard, generation instruction, document schema, price constants), not recalled. Market figures from the open adverts on SwissJobs.app as of 5 September 2026; apprenticeships and internships excluded, language requirements counted once per advert. Shares only, no absolute counts.
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What our job index says about the Swiss market
Computed live from our own index, not quoted from a study. Shares only, as of today.
Language the advert is written in
- Deutsch
- 60%
- English
- 23%
- Français
- 13%
- Italiano
- 3%
Of adverts that state a language requirement, the share asking for
- Deutsch
- 70%
- English
- 43%
- Français
- 21%
- Italiano
- 3%
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