How minutes work: what costs what, and what is free
Free minutes and Practice keep working until the end of 18 October 2026. Minutes bought after 11 September 2026 can be used in the installed extension until 31 December 2026.
1. What is a minute?
One minute of live help during a real interview costs one minute of your balance: the meter runs for as long as the session runs. A practice session with the AI coach costs one minute of balance per minute — the same rate — charged when the session ends. Any part of a minute counts as a whole minute, so a session shorter than a minute still costs one. A practice session lasting 15 minutes costs 15 minutes of balance on its own — or 30 with the extension running.
2. Practicing with the extension on — the intended way
This is what practice is built for: install the extension, go straight to /practice, ask the coach for a hard technical interview, turn the extension on, and train answering hard questions while glancing at the hints — exactly as you will in the real call. When you do, both meters run: one minute per minute for the practice session and one minute per minute for the extension, so the minute costs double. Practice without the extension costs one minute per minute.
3. How long is a practice session?
Up to 15 minutes once you have topped up at least once. Before your first top-up, a practice session lasts up to 10 minutes: the coach tells you when time is up, and you pay only for the minutes the session ran.
4. What starts and stops the meter in a real interview?
The meter starts when you turn the extension on for a call and it connects — on a Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams tab JobLander offers that inside the page; anywhere else it is the puzzle-piece menu at the top right of Chrome and Show JobLander Insights. From then on it counts one minute of balance for every minute the session runs, whether a hint is on screen at that second or not. It stops when you end the session: click the timer pill in the widget header, then confirm. Reading transcripts, debriefs and My Stories costs nothing.
5. Only one practice session at a time
If a practice session is already running, starting a second one is refused. That is deliberate: it protects you from paying for two sessions at once.
6. What if a practice session ends abnormally?
Closed the tab, lost the connection, laptop went to sleep — you are charged only for the minutes the session actually ran, never twice for an interrupted one. The slot frees itself automatically; in the worst case that takes up to 18 minutes. A session you end normally frees it immediately.
7. What do I get for free?
Every account receives 40 free minutes. Free minutes have no monetary value, cannot be refunded or exchanged, and the amount may change. Free minutes and Practice keep working until the end of 18 October 2026. Minutes bought after 11 September 2026 can be used in the installed extension until 31 December 2026.
8. What happens when my balance runs out?
In a real interview you get a warning when about 10 minutes remain. If the balance still runs out, the session keeps going for about 5 more minutes and then ends with a message and a top-up link — it does not cut you off mid-sentence. A practice session you have already started always runs to its end. New sessions do not start at zero.
9. What if the AI coach never joins?
Nothing is charged. Minutes only accrue while a session is actually running; if the coach never arrives, there is no session and no charge.
10. Questions
For questions, email hello@joblander.app
Ready for your real interview?
Install the JobLander Chrome Extension and activate it in your next Google Meet or Zoom session. The AI is ready when you are.