Interview Skills

Preparing for your Interview

I work as an Interview Preparation Coach, helping people prepare for interviews and coaching them prior to their attending for interview. I work with each client to help them articulate and document their main achievements, skills and competencies. I provide advice and practical guidelines on how to write CVs and work with each client to help them improve their CV. I help clients prepare for interviews and work with them to help improve their interview skills, by:

videoing the client being interviewed
reviewing that video with the client
providing feedback
eliciting ways in which interview performance could be improved.

I also provide Interviewer Skills Training for Managers to help them be successful in recruitment. This training for interviewers includes reviewing CVs prior to the interview and preparing appropriate questions to ask during the interview. It can also address the use of a competency based approach, which focuses on getting the person they are interviewing to give specific examples of where they have displayed particular behaviours and skills at work in the past. We also examine the types of questions that work well when interviewing, as well as questions that should not be asked by an interviewer.