Job Application & Interview Services
Enhance your interview skills, perfect your cover letter, CV, and LinkedIn profile, and master those job application forms.
I offer the following Job Application and Interview Services. Please book a Free Job Application/Services Introduction Call from the booking form at the end of this page if you have any questions or clarifications before booking a service or programme.
Interview Skills Training & Mock Interviews
Most of us experience some form of apprehension coming up to an interview. It’s an artificial environment at the very least. We are in a room or on a screen with, for the most part, strangers. We want them to like us. We want to demonstrate that we can do the job for which we are interviewing. We want them to choose us over other candidates. The job interview process can be lengthy. Many companies have an involved interview process starting with screening interviews, aptitude testing, followed by online/in-person interviews, second and even, third interviews.
What will it take for you to be successful in your interview? I use the 3 x ‘P’s approach to interview preparation and I will help you work through each step.
- Plan: Research the organisation, familiarise yourself with and understand the Job Description, and identify your strengths and gaps against the role.
- Prepare: Write your answers to possible questions and reduce to concise, nuanced answers. Write. Write. Edit. Edit. Edit.
- Practice: Reading your answers out loud, listening for “rise and fall” in your delivery while developing a flow in your answers, look at your body language and your delivery, take note of personal appearance and build your confidence and self-belief.
The Mock Interview will simulate the interview environment because you never get a chance for a first impression.
Cover Letter
Your cover letter allows you the opportunity to shine by standing out from the hundreds of other applications your potential employers are receiving. It gives you a chance to directly tell your potential employer why you are the right person for the job, as well as to add other qualifications you hold that are not included in your CV.
I will create a Cover Letter with your input to ensure it is tailored to the specific role you are applying for but you’ll be able to reuse and tweak for future applications also.
CV & Linked In Profile
A professional CV (and Linked In Profile) will more often than not be your first introduction to a potential employer. Acceptable formatting, chronologically developed, outlining responsibilities and achievements and with a sharp, well nuanced Profile section are all required in a top-class CV. Connection is vital on the CV with the “buzzwords” words of the Job Description and keep in mind that hiring managers and recruiters are busy people.
I will help to make your CV and Linked In Profile professional and a well presented shop window for your career history, to get that all important interview.
Public Service Application Form
The Job Application Form is a detailed, nuanced document requiring time (lots of time!) to work through and complete. The information in the application form usually plays a central part of the short-list process. The competencies sections give you the opportunity to demonstrate your capacity in the particular competency and a word-count usually applies to these sections.
I will review/amend a completed form and will, if necessary, start from scratch with a blank form.