
AINA is a free career coach you talk to face to face, as a video avatar. Tell it where you are and where you want to be. It goes through your CV, your experience, and your search strategy, and comes back with a list of tasks instead of general advice. Then it runs interview practice on your own experience: it listens, asks follow-up questions, and points out where an answer sounds generic, runs long, or credits the team for work you did. Around the coach sits a job profile. There is a CV review with specific fixes, a short video introduction recorded with AINA, a career card you can share on LinkedIn, and a role board where you apply with the finished profile and track every application in one place. Session history is kept, so you can go back and see where you started. It is free for candidates. Employers pay, because AINA is also a hiring platform.
ChatGPT will role-play an interviewer, but you are typing into a box, and it is easy to sound brilliant in writing. AINA puts a face on a call and asks the follow-up question. That discomfort is the product. The most useful thing the coach does is the most human one: noticing that you describe what the team did and never say what you did. Ending every session with a task list beats a pep talk.
Treat it as a coach first and a job board second. The roles on the board are mostly remote positions in tech, fintech, and SaaS, so a nurse or a retail manager will get the coaching but few matches. The business model is recruiting: employers pay, and candidates are the supply. That is not sinister, but know that your profile and video introduction are what employers are paying to see. Prepare in AINA and apply wherever the jobs actually are. It is practice before the interview, not help during it.
Best for anyone returning to interviews after years away, changing fields, or underselling their own work. Skip it if you already have a mentor who will grill you honestly.