Interview Coaching

If you’re looking to secure a public sector role, you’ll face one of the toughest job processes. 

Many potentially valuable candidates don’t succeed in their interviews because they’ve not got the interview skills they need to succeed. That is why you need government interview coaching services.

Using professional interview coaching, you can substantiate your value in any position you’re applying for, demonstrating your value to the hiring manager and team. Being able to articulate your value well is the key to being as competitive as possible against other candidates – just having the experience is not enough if you can’t describe it succinctly and powerfully. 

Public Service Interview Coaching: Your Path to Success

APS interview coaching is the best possible preparation for a competitive interview process as you will gain third-party, objective feedback, and learn proven best-practices for talking about your skills and experience. Our public service interview coaching has been tailor-made to help candidates demonstrate their value for government jobs.

You will be provided with the training necessary to highlight your skills and experience specifically as they relate to the capability and behaviour matrices that government departments use to determine who the best candidate for a role is. These capability matrices are what government hiring managers use in the recruitment process.

When your written application demonstrates a required level of suitability for a role you will qualify for an interview.  The next critical step is to provide verbal evidence that you possess the capabilities required in the role, by discussing your skills and experience. You need to practise and improve your interview skills, to be competitive in this stage of the process.

Overcome Interview Anxiety: Professional Interview Coaching for Government Roles

One of the biggest challenges interviewees have is a tendency to have anxiety about the interview, and this anxiety impacts interview performance significantly. Part of this is because they fear the strict adherence in the way interviews are conducted for government jobs.

Interview anxiety can manifest in a number of different ways that affect performance, often derailing critical parts of the interview.  People often shutdown, forget critical details, loose the ability to concentrate, or get tongue tied with pre prepared statements.

Government job interviews can be scary, especially if you are new or inexperienced in this process. Improving your understanding of the process and best practices will go a long way to alleviating interview anxiety and nerves, to put you in a more confident frame of mind for peak performance. With coaching, your confidence in presenting your skills and experience will improve and you’ll feel less anxious about the interview event, as you’ll be well versed in what to expect and what questions are going to be asked. Our coaching will also give you specific steps to cope with nerves on the day, and simple practices that can help you recover your calmness and composure during the interview session.

APS Government Interviews: Proven Strategies and Support

Our interview skills coaching is designed to help provide you with the tools and support to succeed in a job interview, whether you’re trying to secure an entry-level role or a senior executive position.

Based on APS interview coaching systems, the resources you gain will not only help you project confidence but also teach you how to structure answers for hiring managers and panel members to be able to see how you’re a good fit for the specific role you’re applying for.

All of these proven strategies and the one-on-one support that you’ll get will set you up for success on the day.

Tailor Your Answers: STAR Technique for Interview Success

One government interview coaching places a significant focus on diving deep into the STAR technique, and outlining the best principles, tips and methods to build and deliver your career stories using the STAR technique. Even if you are somewhat familiar with STAR, you can take your capabilities to the next level by practising your set of interview stories with an experienced interview coach. For those in a government career, mastery of these techniques is very much a ‘life skill’ that will serve you throughout your future career.

Learning the STAR technique and other methods for answering questions will give you a clearly defined approach to bring into all of your preparation and practice, removing any guesswork and giving you a clear actionable preparation plan. 

Build Confidence, Land the Job: Public Sector Interview Coaching

Public sector interview coaching is the best way to help you build confidence and improve your chances of securing a job offer. You will be able to walk into the interview knowing that you have every chance of securing the role.

In addition, you can use these skills across any sector in the future. Helping you to progress in your career and improve your chances of a long and successful career, regardless of what work you want to excel in.

Career Interview Coaching Client Success Story

If you’re not sure of the value of career interview coaching yet, then why not look at some of our client testimonials below? These are all real people who have used our services to help them learn the skills and build the confidence to secure public sector jobs.