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Our team of top HR professionals have interviewed thousands of people from naïve students to hard-core Chief Execs running £100,000,000 companies. Our insider knowledge means that we know what you must do to get the job you want. 

We have placed staff in blue-chip companies in various countries, we’ve run Assessment Centres, and created Management Development and Career Management programmes. 

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Hard Facts:

Fact 1: Most CVs end up in the bin within 20 seconds - Many people, including CEOs, can’t put a decent CV together. Our ‘How to Write a Winning CV’ E-book will show you the mistakes you must never make.

Fact 2: Telephone Interviews screen out applicants - If you haven't faced a telephone interview before you will fail. Our ‘Winning at Telephone Interviews’ E-book will show you how to beat the competition with this unmissable secret.

Fact 3: Excellent candidates fail at interview! - Don't let it happen to you!
Our ‘How to Win at Interview’ E-book will show you how to control your nerves, avoid mistakes and improve your interview performance.

More Hard Facts:

Fact 4: Competency or Situational Interviews are taking over - We show you how to sail through competency based interviews in our ‘Winning at Competency Based Interview’ E-book.

Fact 5: Over 87.5% of candidates fail at Assessment Centres - Our top insiders show you the secret way to beat the odds in our ‘Winning at Assessment Centres’ E-book

Fact 6: Interviewers aren’t there to help you, they are gatekeepers to the organisation. Well, we know their secret methods and we share these with you in our E-books.


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Here's the bad news:

  • Some 80% of applicants fail to get through the online application processes

    You need to know how to identify key words which the employers will use to include or exclude you during this purely electronic stage of selection.

  • Around 60% of applicants who attend an interview are eliminated at the interview stage

    All the “blue-chip” companies use face to face interviews that are “criteria based”. In other words, the questions will have been developed by psychologists to identify particular behaviours that are displayed by the company’s most successful people. If you don’t know the “right way” to answer the questions, you will be one of the 60% who fail.

Even the strongest candidates need to learn how to demonstrate their skills to a potential employer and how to show themselves to best advantage. Our coaching and e-books will teach you how to impress!

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."

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What not to do at Interview

A poll of over 1,000 interviewers by UK childrens charity NCH found the following behaviours would stop them offering a candidate a job:
  • Swearing – 78%
  • Answering Mobile Phone – 76%
  • Inappropriate Clothing – 50%
  • 10 Minutes or more late – 49%

     

"Did you know that for 73% of employers a badly presented and written CV is even 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

Jobseekers are talking themselves out of billions of pounds a year in potential pay rises through lack of interview skills, according to research by www.jobsite.co.uk.

The study of 5,000 candidates found that poor interview technique was the single biggest reason for failure (11%), whilst falling victim to nerves (11%) or being out of interview practice (9%) were other major factors.

The research highlights the widespread lack of interview preparation among candidates. Only 13% practise interview questions with friends and family, despite 33% saying that knowing how to turn their experience into answers would make them more successful. Instead, many candidates look to prepare by buying a new suit (16%) or having a haircut (7%).

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."