The UK based job seeker applying for professional, managerial and graduate-level employment who wants one to one job interview advice and tips to help them achieve a career move.

People gaining special benefit from the job interview skill training programme:

• The job seeker with no recent job hunting or interview experience (eg. new graduates and people who've worked for the same employer for years).


• The job seeker from a Police or Armed Services background who needs more help with their civilian job application and interview preparation than provided by their resettlement course.


• The job seeker whose career move will involve promotion or a completely different job.

The "learning material" used in the training in interview skill programme is based on a "live" job application. This approach means you enjoy the benefits of practising for your next interview at the same time as you receive whatever job interview tip and advice you need to boost your self-presentation skill.

You work one to one during the half-day job interview skill session with your tutor, an experienced recruiter and coach.

Your tutor will teach you to "think like the employer" when preparing for each job interview (a tip which helps you select the right evidence to show you're the best applicant for their job vacancy). You'll learn how to analyse job advertisements, job descriptions and person specifications to discover what questions you're likely to be asked at the job interview. Being able to anticipate the interview questions means you go into the job interview ready to answer confidently and persuasively.

You'll be given whatever tip you need to calm job interview nerves. You'll practise appearing relaxed, friendly and confident at the job interview and keeping the right amount of eye contact with your interviewer. You'll get advice on the best ways of answering any interview questions you dread and constructive feedback on any aspects of interview skill that are of special concern.

The job interview practice will teach you the skill of analysing the recruiter's questions during the interview in split seconds, making it easier for you to give intelligent, well-focused answers.

You'll have the chance to try out different ways of answering difficult questions, getting the recruiter's advice on how well each approach works.

You'll be given tip after tip on using the facts and figures of your earlier achievements at interview to impress your potential employer.

When your career move involves a more senior role or a different type of employment, you'll be shown how to "translate" the skill you've acquired to explain what you can offer in the new job.

You'll be provided with a job interview tip advice sheet and a training exercise to help you build on the interview skill you've developed.

Leicester (70 mins by rail from London and close to motorways)

£210

Email:
Tel: (01455) 284 020

The UK based job seeker applying for professional, managerial and graduate-level employment. These professional CV writing services are particularly useful for people wanting to achieve a big career move.

People gaining special benefit from our professional CV writing services and advice on the covering letter:

• Anyone (scientists, engineers etc) who has to communicate "hard to explain" technical information about their job skill / achievements in their CV and covering letter to recruitment consultancies and HR managers.


• The job seeker with no recent experience of job hunting at professional level.


• The job seeker planning a career move involving a big change in direction (eg. Armed Services and Police leavers wanting more tips on writing a professional civilian CV and covering letter than provided in their resettlement course).

The best CV tip for getting onto the job interview short list is to design your CV and covering letter to impress employers recruiting for the posts you want. This tip — identify what your target employers look for — is vital because your CV has to prove you're so close to their ideal they must see you! Expect lots of rejections if you send out a universal CV and covering letter.

Accordingly, the experienced recruiter writing your professional CV (and teaching you how to write a good covering letter) will start the session by exploring with you the type / level of job you want and your target employers' picture of the individual they hope to recruit.

The discussion with the recruiter writing your professional CV will often sharpen your ideas about the career move you wish to make, so job hunting is easier to plan. As the UK job seeker often applies for a job below their capabilities in the mistaken belief this improves their chances of being selected, our help with your job application could boost both your ambitions and employment package!

Your advisor will tease out the particular skill, experience and achievements you can offer in your next career move. She'll help you identify and explain in your CV and covering letter the "value to the employer" benefits you bring.

She'll advise you which CV format to use to "sell" you to your target employers. If you're in the later stages of your career or have had a "portfolio" career, her tip on choosing the right CV format for you can make the difference between getting a job interview or not.

She'll warn you against adding unhelpful details in your CV and covering letter that will make employers "bin" your job application.

If your intended career move involves a big promotion or a different type of work, the advisor writing your professional CV and helping you with your covering letter will "translate" your earlier job achievements, skill and experience into language that explains what you can offer in the new job.

Your advisor will write your individually designed CV for your target job market and present it for your approval.

Occasionally, a complicated CV may need "tweaking" until both the recruiter writing the professional CV and the client are completely satisfied.  Such rewriting is free of charge.

Guidance on how to write a covering letter will be included on request as part of the CV writing services programme — please ask the advisor producing your professional CV. Please also ask for the advice sheet on how to write a covering letter.

Leicester (70 mins by rail from London and close to motorways)

£210

Email:
Tel: (01455) 284 020

The UK based job seeker applying for professional, managerial and graduate-level employment.

People gaining special benefit from this job finding service:

• The job seeker hunting for a job in sectors offering few vacancies.


• The job seeker hunting for a job at middle and senior management level.


• The job seeker at a disadvantage in job hunting because of an unconventional career history, uncompetitive qualifications, being "too old", etc.


• The job seeker from a Police or Armed Services background wanting to begin a very different second career.

This one-to-one programme will greatly improve your vacancy finding skill, hugely increasing your chances of a successful career move. It'll give you more control over the job hunting process and help you feel more positive and less stressed.

You'll review with your advisor the job hunting techniques you use now, learning tip after tip on getting better results from them. You'll learn how to find the recruitment consultancies working in your sector (they're more likely to offer "career move" posts than the "high street" agencies). You'll learn how to find all the most important professional and business journals advertising jobs in your sector. Advice on web-based job hunting can be given if needed.

Surveys asking the UK job seeker how they found employment show more than 70% got their job entirely or partly through networking. Accordingly, you'll learn easy, psychologically comfortable ways of using this highly effective job hunting skill. You'll create your own database of networking contacts able to provide help with each job application. You'll have the opportunity during the session to "role play" networking with one of your contacts to obtain help with a job application, making you feel more confident about using this job hunting skill in real life.

Leicester (70 mins by rail from London and close to motorways)

£210

Email:
Tel: (01455) 284 020

Professional, managerial and graduate-level UK based job seekers (employed or not) wanting to receive job interview tips, personal advice, support and companionship during their job hunting as members of a Job Hunting Help group.

People gaining special benefit from membership of a Job Hunting Help group:

• The employed job seeker wanting to move on in their career and to share ideas on job hunting, writing a professional CV or covering letter and job interview tips, etc., with people of the same level of job seniority as themselves.
• The job seeker who'd like the help of colleagues during their job hunting while feeling that voluntary sector and government "job club" groups are not for them.
• The job seeker wanting to build on their "people skills" and enjoy companionship while job hunting as well as to get personalised help with each job application.

Joining a Job Hunting Help group can improve the effectiveness of your job hunting, keep you focused and provide emotional support during what is sometimes a very lonely and stressful time. Your colleagues in the Job Hunting Help group may become lifelong members of your networking community, willing to help you achieve any future career move.

Each group consists of 8-10 members working together to improve everyone's job prospects through sharing job leads, providing interview practice and job application help, swapping skills, knowledge, contacts and resources, etc.

Your group may want their tutor to attend every meeting, providing job application help, advice on the CV and covering letter and interview skill training.

Alternatively, your tutor's role may be limited to bringing together individuals with common job hunting interests and facilitating their first half-day meeting (if so, the registration / 1st meeting fee will be the only charge made for this service).  

Tutor-led groups meet 1:00pm-5:00pm on any mutually convenient day of the week, Monday to Saturday. Many groups will want to meet every 4 weeks or so but each Job Hunting Help group decides for itself the timing, frequency and locations of its meetings.

Some individuals may find jobs very quickly (often because of a tip given by their Job Hunting Help group). Members are asked to continue providing help to each other (by email, phone, etc.) until everyone in their Job Hunting Help group has found the job they want.

Leicester (70 mins by rail from London and close to motorways)

£50 (registration & first meeting fee)

Email:
Tel: (01455) 284 020