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- November 5, 2024
Mastering Unstructured Interview Questions with the Past, Present, and Future Model
Unstructured interviews can be challenging. Unlike structured competency based interviews, where questions are predefined and follow a specific order, unstructured..
read more - October 24, 2024
Why Demonstrating Leadership Potential is Crucial for Interview Success
As you ascend the career ladder, landing a senior leadership position becomes about more than just highlighting your past experience...
read more - October 7, 2024
7 Interview Tips for Introverts: How to Shine with Your Unique Strengths
Job interviews or boards can be daunting for anyone, but for introverts, the experience can be particularly challenging. The pressure..
read more - September 26, 2024
Top Tips for Demonstrating Strategic Vision and Leadership at Interview
Based on anecdotal feedback from many of my clients over the years, the most difficult aspect of a senior leader..
read more - September 10, 2024
How to Answer “Why should you get the job?” In Your Interview: Top Tips For A Winning Response
Even in a competency based interview the questions “Tell me about yourself” or “Why should you get the job?” are..
read more - August 28, 2024
The Past, Present, and Future Model – Master Unstructured Interview Questions
Unstructured interviews can be challenging. Unlike structured competency based interviews, where questions are predefined and follow a specific order, unstructured..
read more - August 16, 2024
Competency Based Interviews versus Strength Based Interviews
Competency-based interviews and strength-based interviews are two distinct approaches used in recruitment and selection to assess candidates and enable a..
read more - August 14, 2024
The Performance Cycle
I had a long conversation with an candidate yesterday that was similar to many that I have every single week...
read more - April 6, 2023
Tellin’ Stories
As you will know from our previous blogs (or if you have attended one of our masterclasses, online or 1:1..
read more - December 12, 2022
Remembering What You Did – The Hardest Part of A Interview Process?
Over the 20 years or so that I have been successfully coaching and helping candidates ‘b the best they can..
read more - February 23, 2021
How To Smash A Zoom/Teams Virtual Interview
More and more organisations are moving to running their recruitment and selection online, so it’s very prudent to consider a..
read more - January 29, 2021
Just Be Yourself – The Worse Interview Advice EVER!
Let’s be honest, interviews are a very strange concept and very unlike how you tend to speak normally to friends..
read more - October 15, 2020
The Blind Leading The Blind: The Importance of Expert Interview Coaching
Have you got an interview, board or assessment centre approaching in the near future? The chances are then that you..
read more - January 27, 2020
Why Do Great Candidates Fail Thier Selection Process?
Why do I spend all my time coaching candidates to ‘b the best they can be’ and help them perform..
read more - January 13, 2020
Planning For Success
Last year I completed an Ironman consisting of a 3.8k swim, 180k cycle and a 42K run triathlon – a..
read more - December 16, 2019
3 Top Tips For Interview Success
The most common question that we are asked here at bselected towers is “What are your top tips for success..
read more - December 9, 2019
Assessment Centre Role-Plays: What’s the big deal?
Role-plays or interactive exercises are often a part of a selection process. So it makes sense to be prepared for..
read more - December 2, 2019
Striving for Simplicity In The Interview Process
Take a look at this definition of simplicity: The contradiction here though is that simplicity, making things easy to understand,..
read more - November 22, 2019
ALF – The Most Important Rule To Smash Your Interview
This is a short but really important blog in order for you to perform at your best at an interview..
read more - November 12, 2019
Marginal Gains In Interview Success
The idea of marginal gains is all about making small incremental improvements in any process that adds up to a..
read more - September 6, 2019
3 Simple Presentation Tips
For many candidates the act of standing in front of a board or selection panel can be the most difficult..
read more - August 25, 2019
Interviewer Fatigue – How Does It Effect Your Performance?
Fatigue during an interview is a reality. It creeps up on you making you lose concentration and make mistakes that..
read more - July 25, 2019
Effective Goal Setting
If you have watched athletics or cycling over the years, you may be familiar with the athletes or cyclists talking..
read more - June 11, 2019
Unconscious Bias In Selection
I recently read an article that got my hackles up as it is something I believe is so wrong within..
read more - May 30, 2019
Visualisation & Interview Success
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