With its lean towards the gig economy and fluid labour markets, today’s job climate is fierce. The messages you need to craft will be strategic and rhetorical. They need to be assertive and targeted. How you approach this journey is crucial.
Crafting your career collateral is important: copy-editing your applications, statements, cover letters, CV, bio and LinkedIn to be concise and readable yet strategically and assertively targeted – with all the necessary criteria satisfied. They also need to be styled to target, keyword optimised, aligned with JDs and aesthetically fine-tuned too.
But shining bright and giving your best answers in interview is harder. Coaching, bespoke to you and your target JD, will unpack the exact qualities, skills and drivers that selection panels are looking to box-tick. For interview preparation, we:
- unravel exactly what to expect
- unravel what you already know about optimal responses
- workshop to mould these into your best answers possible
- repeat this for all possible lines of questioning: biographic, motivational, comptency, situational, knowledge, and acuity
- use CBT techniques to manage unwanted thoughts and help you tap into your recall usefully and efficiently
I get you to explore the actual indicator hirers use to assess you. Together, we work deeply with your cognition, rather than follow cookie-cutter prototypes that many online blogs or less experienced coaches offer. Because it is much more than simply regurgitating template answers. Nor is it about drifting or circumnavigating to fill gaps while sitting looking confident. It is about your genuine ability to perform live, tactically and on-target.
You will ‘take the interviewer by the hand’ and lead them to where you need them to be. You will build trust: successful interviewing is about subtly inviting the interviewer to visualise you already performing the role or delivering to target.
From timid grads to dead-wood mid-lifers to high-calibre executives, I have methodologies to convert you into a strong, credible and persuasive interviewee. There are no silver bullets so you cannot gain these skills by reading a webpage. Learning to interview well is achieved via guided live practice with reflection.
I have coached thousands of individuals into roles mainly in finance, banking, law, legal counsel, senior management, tech and IT, transformation, program and project management, but also many into HR, senior marketing, the creative industries and more. I am immersed in good-practice sharing with leading recruiters, head-hunters, outplacement providers, HR SIGs and career consultants, and have deeply analysed thousands of job descriptions and CVs.
I know how hiring decisions are made.
“The coaching provided me with a clever method of structuring each category whereas I had previously just muddled through interviews … and further advice about polishing my performance.”
"Inspiring - Tony has patiently guided me along a path to career enlightenment. Enabling me to achieve clarity and define a vision for my future. He has set mechallenges which ultimately helped me understand my core drivers and the value I can add."
“Thanks so much for your expertise, examples and tips, in yesterday’s research students and fellows employability training – the feedback was really enthusiastic!”
"Tony showed me how to demonstrate my strengths in a format employers recognise. He helped in every aspect of the process, from the way to behave, to having solid answers to questions I was likely to be asked (and they really did come up!)"
