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Both Sides of the Table

What it feels like in the chair. What the panel actually sees.

Most interview advice is written from one side of the table. These pieces are written from both: the candidate's experience of a moment, then what the people scoring it were really looking at, and what to do differently next time.


Coming next

Practical advice for your next career move.

Graduates, professionals changing direction, and senior leaders each get their turn. If there's a stage of the process you'd like covered, say so and it goes on the list.

Graduate and early career

"Tell me about yourself" is not an icebreaker

What the panel is scoring in the first two minutes, and why the rehearsed life story is the wrong answer.

All career stages

Rejected after a good interview: the three reasons that never make it into the feedback email

It felt like it went well. It probably did. Here is what happened in the room after you left.

Graduate and early career

You have no experience. What the panel counts as experience anyway

Group projects, part-time jobs and the society you ran are all evidence, if you know how a panel reads them.

Professional and career change

Your CV has thirty seconds: what a hiring manager reads, skips, and stops on

A sift of two hundred CVs does not read the way you wrote yours. What survives the first pass.

Reading is the start. Preparation is the rest.

A complimentary 20-minute consultation to talk through where you are and what's next.