Knowledge

Practical guidance on the things your feedback flags

Your results name what happened. These articles explain why it happens and what to do about it — one topic at a time, no motivational filler.

Updated August 2026

How to use this section

Veracue's feedback is deliberately specific: a pace figure, a filler count, an eye-contact percentage, a note on whether your answer actually addressed the question. That specificity is useful for knowing what happened, but it doesn't explain why — and the why is usually where the fix lives. Someone speaking at 195 words per minute doesn't need to be told to slow down. They need to know what's driving the speed.

Each article below covers one topic properly and stops. They're written to be read once, acted on, and revisited when a session flags the same thing again. Nothing here promises you a job or claims a technique guarantees an outcome — interview results depend on far more than delivery, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.

If you're after longer, role-specific preparation instead, the interview guides cover question types and particular interview formats.

Nerves

Interview nerves and how they show up in your delivery

What nervousness actually does to pace, fillers, restarts and breathing — why it's situational rather than a fixed trait, and the preparation that reliably helps.

Pace

Speaking pace: finding the range that reads as confident

Why Veracue targets 140–170 words per minute, what rushing signals to a listener, and how to slow down without sounding laboured or over-rehearsed.

Fillers

Filler words: why they cluster and how to reduce them

Fillers are cognitive gap-fillers, not bad habits. Where they cluster, the silent-pause substitution that replaces them, and why eliminating them entirely is the wrong goal.

Eye contact

Eye contact on camera

The lens-versus-screen problem that makes video interviews harder than in-person ones, why reading from notes is visible, and how to use notes without looking like you're reading.

Structure

Structuring an answer under pressure

Reaching for STAR when your mind blanks, the present–past–future shape for "tell me about yourself", and how to recover a rambling answer mid-flow.

Reading about it only gets you so far

Answer real questions on camera and see which of these actually applies to you.

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