Career Elevate Interview Skills
Interviews can be daunting.
Get proven skills, advice and support to make applying for promotion into a senior position, changing career or organisation, easier.
Interviews are considered to be one of the most stressful situations you’ll encounter.
And if you’re planning to continue your rise, you may have to do a lot of them!
How do you effectively demonstrate your personality and competencies in a pressure situation where you’re being judged, and it can make or break the impression others gather about you?
My clients come to me for some or all these reasons:
- Self-belief, low/high confidence, imposter syndrome, fear
- Memorising, using notes, articulating clearly on the spot
- Clarity, time-management, repetition, being concise
Whether you lack confidence – or know in fact that you come across too confidently, overbearing or “too much” – you need practical behavioural, mindset tools and skills.
These sessions are tailored, specific and highly practical. How to manage time, fear, having no notes. We look at anything that’s getting in your way.
In Career Elevate, here are 3 key focus areas:
Effective communication techniques
- Being succinct. Delivering clear responses that stay on point and aren’t repetitive (unless you want to be).
- Speaking articulately. We’re articulate in 2 ways: in our mind, then as we speak. Both aspects need to work.
- Choosing the right words. Precise language that shows your expertise, and makes you sound considered.
- Composed delivery. Intentional pauses to highlight key ideas and project confidence and control.
Professional and personal presence
- Sounding confident when you’re anxious. Your system is in overdrive, and you struggle to think clearly.
- Demonstrating helpful body language. You’re still authentic, with awareness of what your non-verbals say.
- Showing confidence without arrogance. Much of this is tone, the emotional intent behind your words.
- Projecting your personality. Conveying your strengths and uniqueness to create a positive impression.
Skills and competencies
- Adversity skills. How to prepare, and how not to. Giving you tools to feel in control. These are built in, prior.
- Role-playing. Testing different interview scenarios, used to habituate you to the unexpected in real-time.
- Thriving without notes or memorising all your responses. How to shift from memorising to conversational.
- Handling follow-up questions naturally and being able to stay present (which gives you presence).
The details:
- 3 months (flexible, fast-tracking usually available)
- 6 x 50-minute sessions
- Online or in person (Melbourne)
- Includes resources: videos, templates, exercises
- Access to me between sessions
- Discussion and testing which may include role-playing (if chosen).
- Video modules to reinforce the learning.
Note: 3-session half-program available if time or budget are a constraint.
Investment $2,900 + GST
Can be paid in 3 instalments.
My background and how it supports you to succeed
The ability to think and speak coherently, get your tone right and your non-verbals working for you while being watched: this is something I’ve personally had to overcome, as well as working with 1000’s of clients with these challenges.
After years of struggling with performance and public speaking anxiety I’ve learned what’s needed to prepare and perform at your best when people are watching you.
Even if that audience is just one interviewer. You know it’s not about the number of people judging you, it’s the fact that you need to perform under pressure, you’re being tested and evaluated in a short amount of time with no ‘redo’ button.
What my clients are saying
Sarah is an experienced facilitator with exceptional skills in understanding the individual strengths and weakness to tailor a fit for purpose program to deliver powerful presentations in high stake situations.
The level of dedication, commitment is amazing. In addition I found the sessions with Sarah transformational and highly motivating.
Highly recommend the programs offered by Sarah not only when stakes are high, very-useful for improving your executive presence or communication style in day to day to life.
Arun Sasi
Mercy Health
Invited to interview for numerous jobs I was ‘second best candidate’ each time. After several sessions with Sarah and putting her advice into practice, I received three job offers from leading organisations in my field.
18 months later I applied for my boss’s job and engaged Sarah again. I was offered a promotion at my current workplace and three days later was offered a job at a different company.
Every time I’ve worked with Sarah, she has guided me in a way that reveals my best attributes and how she suggests improvements makes me feel more confident. I attribute the success I’ve had largely to her coaching.
Naomi Lennox
Faculty Services - University of Sydney
Sarah was exceptional to work with – I highly recommend her public speaking coaching services. I worked with her for both general speaking and specific interview preparation and she was brilliant.
She has an incredible way of getting straight to productive feedback in a kind and realistic way. Her suggestions are both extremely intelligent and individualised to personal style which is very difficult to come by.
I cannot speak more highly of her and I’m so grateful for her talents. I will be working with her again!
Clara McCormack
Founder, Culture Hacker High Performance Specialist