Interview training
As the credit crunch starts to bite increasing number of people are looking for coaching in interview technique. I was running a course in Wales recently where all the delegates had been made redundant from a job they had been doing for many years. Some of them hadn’t had an interview in fifteen years! There was a sense, which they clearly articulated of feeling bereaved and there was a great deal of anger and a sense that a few hours of training wasn’t going to get them another job. I had to spend quite a bit of time dealing with this anger before we could do anything about practicing interview skills. As more and more people find themselves in the situation of hunting for a job it seems that dealing with issues of self-esteem and confidence is as important as working on interview technique.