Quinncia Mock Interview & Analysis Instructions

First Year Students: 200 points or above

Second Year Students: 250 points or above

Third Year Students: 300 points or above

Fourth Year Students: 400 points or above

We also provide a general analysis that highlights all of the metrics Quinn used to calculate your score. Employers use the same method to evaluate interviews, so it is important to consider Quinn’s feedback while preparing for interviews.
You will either receive a bronze, silver, or gold badge.

There’s no need to worry if you don’t receive a gold badge, especially as a first- or second-year student! Badges are based on how you compare to other students at your university.

First-year students will likely get bronze badges, while fourth-year students should try to get gold badges. Here is how the badges are awarded:

Gold: Top 10% of scores for your university

Silver: Middle 50% of scores for your university

Bronze: Bottom 40% of scores for your university

• Quinn assesses your communication style, rate of speech, filler word usage, answer length, and the skills you discuss most frequently.
• Her analysis of these individual components sits lower on the page.
• In the individual question feedback, she synthesizes all of these components and offers suggestions to improve your audio on each question.
• A student who scores a gold badge will have less than 2 filler words per minute, rate of speech between 110-130 words per minute. An analytical and confident style of speech, and no background noise.

• Quinn analyzes your video by assessing your enthusiasm, micro-expressions, and eye contact. As with audio, Quinn synthesizes all of these components and provides you with video improvements for each question.
• To score excellent on video a student would face the screen 85-95% of the time. Their dress would be appropriate to the industry of their choice. Background would be clean and organized. Face would be in good lighting and there would be no glare or lack of lighting.

• Quinn also analyzes the information you convey and how you convey it.
• To conduct this analysis, Quinn uses the technical and essential skills cloud.
• She identifies the skills you discuss most frequently in your responses and proposes ways to more effectively discuss these skills.
• For a student to score a gold badge, they would have clear and concise answers using STAR method, PPF (past-present-future) method, How and Why method or analytical method.
  • They would include technical skills, essential skills, and quantifiable outcomes. Their stories don’t go on tangents and the answer is relevant to their industry and job preference.

• This metric tracks the number of words you say per minute. Quinn analyzes your rate and tells you if it is in the ideal range or not.
• You should try to speak slowly enough that Quinn can easily understand you, but quickly enough that you are engaging.
• This metric impacts your overall audio score.

• This score represents how many extraneous words you use per minute, such as like, aaa, and um.
• Quinn also counts any words you extend as filler words.
  • If you drag out the end of a word while thinking of what to say next, Quinn counts it as a filler word. Take a few moments to collect your thoughts before responding to limit the number of filler words you use.

• This metric assesses how analytically, confidently, or tentatively you respond.
• Analytical communication indicates that you express yourself logically and methodically, confidence shows that you believe in yourself and feel sure of your responses, and tentativeness points to hesitancy or unsure answers.

• Quinn shows you the ideal response length and where you fall in this range for each question.
• Staying within this range ensures that you express a solid amount of information without burying the key points under unnecessary detail.

• This metric measures the excitement you express in each answer by analyzing facial expressions and eye contact.
• Employers search for eager candidates who will accept their offer and create a positive work environment.
  • While it is important to show your eagerness, you should not aim to have the highest possible level of enthusiasm for each question.
  • You should focus on appearing animated and engaged while responding to the interview questions. When you do that, enthusiasm naturally flows.

• This category does not analyze the emotions you are feeling during the interview.
• Rather, it studies the emotions that your facial expressions convey when you’re telling your story.
• Let’s say you are responding to an interview question about a challenge you overcame in a professional setting. You might use facial expressions which convey fear, surprise, and joy as you tell the story, even though you are not feeling these emotions during the interview.
• Your micro-expressions score increases as you introduce a wider range of micro-expressions during the interview

• This metric measures the percentage of time you are looking at your screen or camera to gauge how frequently you make “eye contact.”
• You should typically maintain eye contact for 75-85% of the interview, but no more than 95%.