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The best employers get thousands of applications a year. Their recruitment processes are designed to eliminate most of the applicants. Make sure you are one of the lucky few!

Hard Facts:

Fact 1: Most CVs end up in the bin within 20 seconds.

Fact 2: Good people fail at Telephone Interviews.

Fact 3: Excellent candidates fail at Face to Face interview!

Fact 4: Competency or Situational Interviews are taking over

Fact 5: Most people fail at Assessment Centres

Fact 6: Getting a decent job when you are a new graduate is getting harder and harder.

So what do we know about it? Well, we’ve interviewed thousands of people from naïve school-leavers to hard-core Chief Execs running £100,000,000 companies, and we think that as a student or new graduate you need someone to help you get the job or internship you want.

Our personal coaching is focussed on preparing you for what you can expect to meet at the top end of the graduate job market. The top companies receive up to 15,000 applications a year; they have not got the time to interview everyone. That's why, increasingly, the best graduate employers use a recruitment process that eliminates most candidates.

Our Personal Coaching is just that - personal - and we tailor it to your particular needs and situation. But to give you an idea of what we can do for you, we have put together a number of coaching packages, based on the various stages of the recruitment process.

  • Stage 1 – Developing a Competency Based CV/Completing an Online Application Form
  • Stage 2 – Telephone Interview Skills
  • Stage 3 – Face to Face Interview Skills/On-Camera Interview Skills

  • NEW - Competency Based Interview Skills coaching package ideal for those seeking internships or their first graduate jobs

This isn't a comprehensive list of all we can offer, but it will give you an idea of popular options and prices. All our coaching is flexible and we will discuss and agree what's right for you before you have to pay anything. The way our coaching sessions work is that essentially you buy a period of time and together we structure that so that you get the most out of it.

For example, 3 hours coaching would usually be broken into a number of sessions to allow for practice, feedback, a pre-interview motivational call and a follow-up review. Click here for more details about our coaching packages.

Don't worry if you live "miles from anywhere" - much of our coaching is done over the telephone.

Just a few hours coaching can really make a significant difference to your confidence and your success!

In addition to Personal Coaching, we offer a range of e-books aimed at young graduates. Here are some common issues for which our e-books will help you find a solution.

  • Most people can’t put a decent CV together.

  • If you’ve never had to face a serious interview before you will make mistakes, some of which are fatal (though fortunately not in a literal sense).

  • You will tend to repeat the same mistakes again and again if you don’t have guidance.

Are you an interview ‘newbie’? If so you need some insider information from people who sit the other side of the desk, people who conduct telephone interviews and design and run Assessment Centres.

We have written these e-books to give you the answers to questions graduates regularly ask us, questions such as:

And, by the way, in case you are wondering - these FREE e-books are the full and complete e-books. Maybe, like us, you've fallen into the trap of downloading "free e-books" or "free courses" on other web sites only to get a shortened version that only gives you half the story and then tries to get you to buy the real thing? Well, these free e-books ARE the real thing! Download them now!

When we talk about interviews we don’t mean the “Can you pull a pint and how do you feel about being chatted up by lads/girls who’ve had a few too many drinks?” We don’t mean being interviewed to work as a shelf-filler on the nightshift at your local supermarket.

Our e-books will help you succeed at the serious interviews that can affect your future; help you get a job that will mean you can eat and pay the rent.

If you have a burning ambition to ask complete strangers, “Do you want fries with that?” we can help you, but with our help you can set your sights a lot higher in life.

We are not a CV factory; we don’t sell standard forms or fill-in-the-blanks CV templates; we believe in giving you the skills to manage your future.

Remember, interviewers aren’t all warm and cuddly; they aren’t there to help you, they are there to act as gatekeepers to the organisation. Well, we know the secrets of the gatekeepers and the secrets of getting you the job you want and we share those secrets with you in our e-books.

Graduates ask us all the time about how to improve interview performance and how to get the job you want. Questions such as:

  • “What are competency-based interviews?”

  • “How do I answer situational questions?”

  • “How can I prepare for a telephone interview?”

  • “I’ve been asked to attend an Assessment Centre; what happens there?”


We have lots of questions just like these from graduates and we understand the concern.

You need to know that competency-based or situational interviews are a whole new ballgame! This is a much more scientific approach to interviewing and if you think ‘normal’ interviewers lack charm you “ain’t seen nothin” yet.

If you haven’t faced a competency-based or situational interview before you won’t know how to deal with it successfully.

Our ‘Winning at Competency Based Interview’ e-book. will show you what competency-based interviews are and how to answer situational based questions.


Telephone interviews have made things easier - but easier for the interviewer, NOT the candidate.

Telephone interviews are unnerving for the unwary.

Our ‘Winning at Telephone Interviews’ e-book will show you the special skills needed to handle telephone interviews with ease.

Some confident graduates like the role-play challenge of Assessment Centres but that doesn’t mean that they do well. Should you be demonstrating Leadership or showing what a supportive Team Player you are? For most of us Assessment Centres are a real challenge and that’s just what is intended.

If you haven’t attended an Assessment Centre (Selection Centre) before you will find it unnerving and won’t know how best to present yourself.

Our ‘Winning at Assessment Centres’ e-book will show you what you need to do to beat the odds and be successful at an Assessment Centre.

As competition for the best jobs gets tougher you need the skills to WIN.

Getting the job you want can literally enable you to change your life. Give yourself the best chance that you can to be a success.

You can’t rely on good luck and kismet to advance your career (no matter how talented and intelligent you are) especially not in the current economic climate. You have to convince the prospective employer that you would be a valuable asset to them. We show you how!

These new e-books are hot off the press; they are full of essential information, practical guidance, helpful interview tips and more.

Seize the moment and let us help you to get the job you want.


Find valuable FREE RESOURCES to save you time and help you with your applications to top employers at Graduate2Success

Six in 10 interview candidates wear lucky pants to ease them through an interview, according to new research.

The research, by employment law firm Peninsula, found that 84% adorn themselves with a ‘lucky’ item, with six in 10 opting for lucky pants.

Advice is also taken from a horoscope reading of the day for 73% of respondents.

The top 10 lucky charms are:

  • Lucky underwear (sometimes unwashed!)
  • Lucky jewellery
  • Brooch
  • Lucky shoes
  • An object from childhood, ie blanket/teddy
  • Four-leaf clover
  • Key ring
  • Lucky stone
  • Lucky pen/pencil
  • Lucky photograph of someone ie boyfriend/relative

Peter Done, managing director at Peninsula said: "Union Jack underwear is not guaranteed to get you the job, so get prepared, turn up early for the interview, dress smartly and sell yourself. Leave the lucky underwear at home. I'm amazed at how superstitious people are, one employee we spoke to took wearing lucky underwear to the extreme claiming his briefs are so lucky that he refuses to wash them."

The mantra for graduate job applicants should be "preparation, preparation, preparation".
Graham Keating, Careers Consultant at the Manchester Leadership Programme, Careers & Employability Division, The University of Manchester

Keith Potts, chief executive of Jobsite.co.uk, says: "Our candidates tell us that it’s one thing to find a job that matches your skills and experience, but quite another to be able to sell yourself in an interview chair."

"Did you know that for 73% of employers a badly presented and written CV is more of a turn-off than turning up late, wearing inappropriate clothes or swearing during the interview?

Most irritating mistakes are misspelling employer's name, grammatical errors, including irrelevant information and having inappropriate e-mail addresses."
Source: Research by fish4jobs

"There are so many applicants who submit CVs which are below par and will not make it past recruiters' inboxes. There is an ongoing concern that graduates are limiting their chances of success at the first hurdle."
Sunil Duggal, MD Just IT Recruitment.

Each year just 9 out of every 100 graduate applicants to Deloitte are successful

"Assessment Centres give candidates a realistic job preview, and give us a realistic indication of how they are going to perform when they're at work".
Mark Powell,chief psychologist at the Cabinet Office.

- Within the Cabinet Office's Fast Stream graduate recruitment programme, the big challenge is to narrow down the 17,000 or so applicants for about 500 positions.