Professional Interview Coaching

Gael23

How much does this cost and is it a useful thing to do?

highlydebased

Expensive enough, you could be talking €150-200 for 2 hours....

I'd almost say it's worth it though. They would alert you to the small things you might not realise are going against you in interview

University Careers offices would also offer such services probably for free if you are a graduate?

Gael23

highlydebased wrote: »

Expensive enough, you could be talking €150-200 for 2 hours....

I'd almost say it's worth it though. They would alert you to the small things you might not realise are going against you in interview

University Careers offices would also offer such services probably for free if you are a graduate?

Yes I am a graduate.
Would they do that despite me being gone since last May? I think I went to the same university as you actually.

SPM1959

Ask Social Welfare to pay for it. They can only say no.

Korranco

I did it and if I'm honest I found it to be a waste of time. May have been the company though. There's no big secret to interviews just lots of preparation. If I were you I'd just get someone you know to conduct a mock interview.

Gael23

Are there any particularly useful online resources?

Tordelback

Korranco wrote: »

There's no big secret to interviews just lots of preparation.

This isn't really true -you can't properly prepare if you don't know what you are preparing for.

Interviews are a very specific, very artificial situation, even more so these days, where the interview panel may have equally specific, artificial criteria that they are applying. The world of the HR panelist in particular can be bafflingly obscure in its processes and requirements, that go far beyond assessing competency and experience in your field.

It's well worth getting some coaching in the kinds of things that may be asked, and what the expected answers are. Of course you can get that from other recent applicants, but getting expert knowledge from HR people themselves makes sense.

Obligatory disclaimer: not a HR person or interview consultant, but I've been on a course courtesy of FAS and it was a very useful eye-opener.

Birdsong

When I started looking for my current job, I was getting interviews, my CV was good enough but I never got passed the first interview. A friend suggested I go for interview coaching, it was the best €400 I spend, did 2 interviews & got both !

tara83

Birdsong wrote: »

When I started looking for my current job, I was getting interviews, my CV was good enough but I never got passed the first interview. A friend suggested I go for interview coaching, it was the best €400 I spend, did 2 interviews & got both !

I'd appreciate some recommendations if anyone has any please pm

Firefox11

SPM1959 wrote: »

Ask Social Welfare to pay for it. They can only say no.

Social welfare do provide for it through their Job Clubs Scheme.