Improve your chances of getting the graduate job you want by using the knowledge and experience of our top HR professionals during one-to-one personal coaching sessions. You will be able to discuss practical career issues and concerns that really matter to you.
Arranging your coaching is simple. Just e-mail us using our contact form or telephone 01889 590097/07811 322730 and we will arrange a time for a preliminary telephone conversation to discuss your coaching needs. (This preliminary discussion is free of charge and you will not have to pay anything until we have agreed your requirements and you decide to proceed.)
To help you clarify your coaching needs, we have put together a number of coaching packages, geared to 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
If you're applying for internships or your first graduate job, chances are that you will be facing interviews of some kind very soon. Applications for most internships and graduate programmes have closed already or will close soon and you don't want to miss your chance of a great job by failing at interview. A little personal coaching really does help you to perform better, and it doesn't have to cost the earth.
We are now offering you a special coaching package that covers Competency Based questions and Interview skills. The coaching will be divided into several "instalments" and will be done over the telephone at times to suit you, so it's very convenient. As with all our coaching, this package is very flexible and will include an initial FREE, no-obligation phone conversation to establish your own particular needs.
The cost of the package is just £250 for 3 hours, which is excellent value for money.
Don't give up now that jobs are even harder to get than before - Contact us now and find out how we can help you!
Coaching Packages - Geared to Stages of Recruitment Process
Stage 1
The process starts at the CV or, alternatively (depending on the employer) the online application form. These forms are processed by machines using artificial intelligence, not people using judgement. The computers are programmed to score the CV/online application based on set criteria. If you don’t use the right words or give the right answers your application will fail at the first hurdle. Our Developing a Competency Based CV Package and our Completing an Online Application Form Package will help you at Stage 1 of the recruitment process.
Package 1 - Developing a Competency Based CV - £150.00
- Identify and optimise your achievements
- Make you stand out from the crowd
- Ensure key competency match
- Prepare impressive & relevant cover letter
Package 2 – Completing an Online Application Form - £200.00
- Identify and optimise your achievements
- Establish answers to key competency questions
- Make you stand out from the crowd
- Use the language of success
Stage 2
Stage 2 for many of the top employers is to use Telephone Interviewing as another “screen them out” process. Employers love this stage because it is cheap and can be outsourced to a third party. Being interviewed on the telephone is rather like speaking to a call centre except that this time they can stop your potential career in its tracks. If you haven’t been trained in telephone interview techniques you will be at a disadvantage. You need to learn the skills.
Package 3 – Telephone Interview Skills (3 Hrs) - £300.00
- In depth review of interview technique
- Bespoke personal coaching
- Pre-interview motivational phone call
- Follow-up review
Stage 3
If you have been successful so far, the next stage (depending on the prospective employer) is either the Assessment Centre or a face to face interview. Because of the cost of running Assessment Centres some businesses prefer to screen applicants out at interview. Others take the view that it makes better use of their senior executives' time if the Assessment Centre is run first and only those who succeed there are interviewed by the top people.
All the ‘blue-chip’ companies use face to face interviews that are “criteria based”. This means that the questions will have been developed by psychologists to identify particular behaviours that the ‘blue-chip’ has found to be displayed by its most successful people. These behaviours may relate to things like interpersonal skills, ethics, results orientation, problem solving etc. There is a ‘right way’ to answer these questions and that is what we will teach you.
Package 4 – Face to Face Interview Skills (3Hrs) - £400.00
- In depth review of interview technique
- Bespoke personal coaching
- Pre-interview motivational phone call
- Follow-up telephone review
For many people being interviewed by someone we don’t know can be stressful and it can bring out nervous reactions in our speech or body language. So, face to face practice and on-camera feedback can be invaluable as it mirrors the real life interview. For example, if we can see and hear ourselves on film using the (inappropriate for business) ‘cool’ language and gestures of our social group we can do something about it.
Package 5 – On-Camera Interview Skills (3Hrs) - £550.00
- Video taped review of interview performance
- Bespoke personal coaching
- Completion of application form
- Preparation of impressive & relevant cover letter
- Pre-interview motivational phone call
- Follow-up telephone review
The above coaching packages are extremely helpful for face to face interviews, but are unfortunately not a substitute for Assessment Centre training. For coaching in Assessment Centre skills, you will need to attend our Assessment Centre Training Programme, which you can see by visiting our Graduate2Success web site.
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 we structure that together so that you get the most out of it. For example many people who select the Telephone Interviewing will break the 3 hours into a number of sessions to allow for practice, feedback, a pre-interview motivational call and a follow-up review.
To arrange your coaching please contact us so that we can discuss your requirements.
