System, method and software for individuals to experience an interview simulation and to develop career and interview skills
First Claim
1. A system for conducting an employment interview via computer-driven software comprising:
- (a) an input system to receive phrases, events, and data from a user;
(b) an output system to provide phrases, events, and data to the user;
(c) one or more logic routines, state machines, and expert systems managing conversation flow;
(d) a communications component to interface with a plurality of direct or indirect users;
(e) a database of job, human resources, and training knowledge;
(f) a database of spoken language information, phrase handling data, and natural language processing data.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system, method and software for individuals to experience an interview simulation and develop career and interview skills. It allows individuals to experience a full interview simulation, including pre- and post-interview stages. The invention allows individuals to communicate with a computer generated interviewer character. It simulates a discussion by speaking to the individual and asking the individual job-related questions, and displays output on the computer terminal and/or digitizes statements into speech. The individual responds to the statements by typing replies and/or speaking replies into a device such as a microphone, video camera or telephony device that receives and records the responses onto the system. Once the interview is complete, the individual can review all his/her responses via a customized computer interface. The invention allows organizations to screen potential employees by conducting initial screening interviews. It allows individuals to self-screen by seeing which jobs they would be interested in and by submitting pre-screened data to employers. Finally, it allows individuals to train for interviews by going on realistic practice job interviews. The invention is able to provide detailed analysis and recommendations regarding the practice interviews to users, which assists them in developing career and interview skills.
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21 Claims
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1. A system for conducting an employment interview via computer-driven software comprising:
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(a) an input system to receive phrases, events, and data from a user;
(b) an output system to provide phrases, events, and data to the user;
(c) one or more logic routines, state machines, and expert systems managing conversation flow;
(d) a communications component to interface with a plurality of direct or indirect users;
(e) a database of job, human resources, and training knowledge;
(f) a database of spoken language information, phrase handling data, and natural language processing data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of implementing communications and control for an employment interview system comprising:
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(a) a platform independent data messaging system;
(b) a discussion system that accepts and sends data messages;
(c) a remoting component to support local applications or remote users or remote applications connected by wired or wireless mediums;
(d) a collection of inter-connected user input hardware and software components including but not limited to keyboard, user interface, microphone, speech recognition, mouse, video camera;
(e) a collection of inter-connected user output hardware and software components including but not limited to on screen rendering, closed captioning, speech production, speech playback, language translation, audio speakers;
(f) a collection of inter-connected discussion system inputs including but not limited to text, voice, video, control messages. (g) a collection of inter-connected discussion system outputs including but not limited to text, pre-recorded speech, rendered speech, control messages. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of implementing an employment interview discussion engine comprising:
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(a) a database of job, human resources, and training knowledge;
(b) a database of spoken language information, phrase handling data and natural language processing data;
(c) an expert system which can drive a conversation through various stages of an interview plan, including supporting dynamic changes to the discussion topic;
(d) an expert system which can generate phrases, questions, and statements;
(e) an expert system which can respond to input stimuli with phrases relevant to new, previous, or selected previous input;
(f) an input and output system to configure, choose, and facilitate the discussion. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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