CAREER TRANSITION AND RECRUITMENT
The proactive, one step ahead
Today’s global climate, gig economies and labour market fluidity have made job-seeking more cut-throat than ever. The messages you need to craft are strategic and rhetorical. They need to be assertive and targeted. Your approach to this journey is crucial.
Bespoke coaching to you and your target JD will unpack the exact qualities, skills detail and drivers that interviewers and selection panels are looking to box-tick.
I have coached many thousands of individuals into roles in finance, banking, law, tech, project management, HR, marketing, creative and more. I am immersed in good-practice sharing with leading recruiters, head-hunters, outplacement providers, HR SIGs and career consultants, and have analysed deeply thousands of job descriptions and CVs. I know how hiring decisions are made.
Leverage your subconscious
Together, we can unravel exactly what to expect. We workshop to mould these into optimal responses to all lines of questioning. You are trained, harnessing techniques from CBT, to tap into your subconscious in the right way at the right time, avoiding mental clutter, to efficiently locate the indicators that demonstrate a competence exactly (rather than the cut-out prototypes a textbook coach or website blog will offer you).
It is much more than just regurgitating over-prepared narratives. Nor is it about circumnavigating to fill gaps while trying not to drift off purpose. It is deeply tactical and about your ability to perform live.
Take the interviewer by the hand
It is also about coaxing the interviewer into visualising you already performing the role or delivering on targets. You are building trust.
I have ways to convert anyone (from timid grads to dead-wood mid-lifers to high-calibre executives) into strongly credible and persuasive speakers. But there are no silver bullets. You cannot develop competence by reading a book. Learning to interview occurs best through guided practice and guided reflection.
Interview question categories
One useful approach is to build on your understanding of each of the question categories before role-playing them and constructively reflecting on performance. Biographic questions include elevator pitches, achievements, specification or experience mapping, self-awareness, defence and strength-based questions. Motivational questions can be for the role, for the organisation, or more broadly for your career. Behavioural questions can be generic competencies and fit questions -anecdotal narratives as proof of attributes, plus via observation - or applied competencies - anecdotal narratives as evidence of more specific role-related skills. Situational and case-based questions or tasks can include hypothetical problem-solving, work sample chats, presentations, and assessment tasks. And finally, mental acuity, knowledge and technical questions can be open questions, for assessing calibre of thinking, or closed for testing actual technical knowledge.
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Employability and transition
To boost your employability, I have competence building and personal branding development approaches to help you.
I undertake a situational analysis of you and your context and your career and its possibilities. I guide you in exploring the labour market, before working on how you appear both online and in-person, along with recruitment support training, from building a job-search strategy to using speculative approaches, to understanding what an industry is looking for and how selection panels assess you, to preparing for interview questions and other assessment instruments. All the while, building your confidence and how you project.
As with any cataclysmic change, it is better to be prepared. Struggling for competitive advantage in the labour market is now tougher than ever. I have trained and couched thousands of professionals, managers and executives to generate interview offers and bring them up to speed in getting the roles they want. I have unblocked and enriched communication performance in leaders, the accomplished and the aspiring.