How to add captions to a career advice or job interview tips video on iPhone

Why caption career advice videos

Career advice videos, such as job interview tips, how to answer a common interview question, writing a cover letter, asking a manager for feedback or planning a career change, are watched in a feed with the sound off, often on a commute or a break. Captions let viewers follow each tip, and they help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This guide is for talking-to-camera advice about jobs and work. For introducing yourself to an employer, see the video resume guide; for posting on a professional network, the LinkedIn video guide. CaptionAddr burns the captions into the picture, so they show wherever you post.

Caption a career advice video on iPhone

1. Record close to the phone. Sit or stand close to the iPhone in a quiet room and speak toward it. Echo, a fan or a busy room can cover words, and CaptionAddr doesn’t remove noise.
2. Choose the video. Tap Select Video in CaptionAddr and pick the clip with Apple’s Photos picker. Vertical, square and landscape videos all work, and the video keeps its shape.
3. Let the captions generate. Captions start as soon as the video opens; keep the app open; the English speech is transcribed on your iPhone, not on a server.
4. Check job titles and acronyms. Job titles, industry terms, acronyms and names of software are the words most likely to come out wrong. Correct them in Edit Captions, and delete any filler words you don’t want shown. You can edit, delete and reorder words, with undo and redo.
5. Keep your face in view. Choose one of the 20 fonts and a size that reads on a phone, turn on the tinted background over a bright window or a busy bookshelf, and drag the captions to the lower part of the frame, clear of your face.
6. Export and post. Tap Export Video to save the captioned copy to Photos, then upload it to TikTok, Reels, Shorts or any other app. The watermark is off unless you turn it on.

Tips for career advice captions

• Number your tips out loud. The app doesn’t add titles or lists, so say “first,” “second” and “third” to help viewers keep their place.
• Read out what you show. Captions come from your speech, not from a slide, a document or text on screen, so read out any example answer or line you hold up.
• Say the full name before an acronym. Say the full term once, then the short form, so viewers who don’t know it can follow.
• Keep music low or out. Music under your voice can cause missed words; add it in the app you post to, after the captions are made.
• Keep your original. CaptionAddr exports a new copy and leaves the original clip in your library.

Limits

• Speech only. CaptionAddr captions spoken English. It doesn’t read slides, documents or text shown on screen, and it doesn’t caption music or sound effects.
• Captions only. The app doesn’t add titles, numbered lists, arrows or highlights, and you can only fix, delete or reorder the transcribed words.
• No audio changes. The app doesn’t remove echo or room noise or change the audio; deleting a word removes it from the captions only.
• English only. CaptionAddr transcribes English speech and doesn’t translate.
• Single-word captions. Words appear one at a time, timed automatically, always in uppercase; there are no speaker labels, full-sentence layouts or manual per-word timing.
• Length. Free covers videos up to 2 minutes; CaptionAddr Pro covers up to 30 minutes. CaptionAddr doesn’t trim, split or combine clips. The App Store shows the current Pro price in your currency.
• Burned-in captions only. There is no SRT, VTT or text export, and the app doesn’t post to social platforms.

Frequently asked questions

Related guides

• How to add captions to a video resume or self-introduction on iPhone
• How to add captions to a LinkedIn video on iPhone
• How to add captions to TikTok videos

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