Ensure your interview performance is outstanding with professional Interview Coaching from CV Master Career
Interview coaching can help you to perform at your best in any interview situation, giving you a vital edge over your competitors and significantly improving your chances of getting the job you want. Our team has a proven 20 year track record of supporting candidates to successfully prepare for interviews at all career levels, including graduate assessment centres and senior manager roles across the public and private sectors. We offer interview coaching by Microsoft Teams or telephone as well as providing face-to face interview coaching in Cardiff or Bristol.
Interview coaching for any career situation
Interview coaching for career starters
We have helped entry level and graduate clients to break into careers in some of the most competitive sectors, including banking and finance, law and media/journalism as well as public sector roles (such as the Civil Service Fast Stream) and apprenticeship schemes with leading firms. We provide specialised interview coaching services for graduates and undergraduates to help prepare for graduate scheme assessment centre and assessment day interviews.
There are now over 140 applicants for every graduate job
Recent surveys show that 44% of employers plan to reduce graduate hiring, making competition for the top graduate jobs more intense.
Interview coaching for career progression
We have helped thousands of interview coaching clients to progress their careers in many popular roles and sectors, including project management, technical, operational management and specialist professional roles across various sectors / industries as well as more general roles such as customer service / team management. Whatever stage of your career you have reached, our professional interview coaching can help you progress and achieve your goals.
Over 2.9 million people changed jobs in the past 12 months
Around 2.9 million people in the UK changed jobs in the last 12 months according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Approximately 58% of these people progressed into more senior roles. With overall UK job vacancies down by 83,000 between 2025 and 2026, competition for top jobs is tougher than ever.
Interview coaching for career change
We are specialists in supporting clients who are changing careers. Transitioning to a new career path requires a different approach to interviews to ensure you clearly demonstrate your transferable skills and how your experience is relevant to your new career. Our experienced interview coaches are expert in helping clients to identify and showcase these transferable skills at interview.
1.2 million UK workers changed career paths last year
According to the leading job website Indeed, around 1.2 million UK workers changed career paths in the last 12 months, with many leaving their previous industry entirely.
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Interview Coaching Service – Key Features
- Experienced Interview Coach – You will work with an Interview Coach with over 20 years of experience throughout the process
- Microsoft Teams or Face-to-Face Sessions – Our Interview Coaching is delivered via Microsoft Teams as standard or upgrade to in-person coaching at our offices in Cardiff or Bristol
- Tailored Coaching – Your interview coaching session will be tailored towards the type of role and sector you are targeting. We also offer specialised interview coaching for Civil Service roles
- Interview Coaching for a specific job – With our Focused Interview coaching upgrade, we can also tailor your session to prepare you for an upcoming interview for a specific job role.
- Interview Performance Assessment – Our interview coaching services includes test interview questions to benchmark your skills and identify areas for improvement
- Help to anticipate questions likely to come up – We can advise on questions you are likely to face at interview enabling you to prepare more effectively
- Help to develop your answers to Skill / Competency Based, Strength Based, Value Based and Scenario Based Interview Questions – We can help you prepare for all question types
- Help to select the best interview examples – Your experienced Interview Coach will guide you to select the best examples from your experience to demonstrate your skills and achievements
- Guidance on researching a potential employer – We can provide advice and guidance on how to research potential employers and their interview process before your interview
- Selecting relevant questions for employers – Our Interview Coach will help you identify the most relevant questions to ask a potential employer at interview
- Practical advice to improve your interview confidence – Helping you banish interview nerves!
- Mock Interview – Our Interview Coaching includes a short Mock Interview to allow you to benchmark your progress and practice your new skills
- Full Written Interview Coaching Feedback Report – Provided as standard, including notes on everything covered during your session and recommendations to continue building your skills
Expert Advice – Based on 20 years of experience
Our Interview Coaches have over 20 years of experience in supporting clients to prepare for all types of job interview. We have successfully assisted our clients to overcome career dilemmas and excel at interview across all sectors and career levels.
Customer Satisfaction Rating
96%
Of our interview coaching clients reported their interview performance significantly improved after coaching.
Case Study – We helped mature graduate Mayowa to secure a place with the UK Government Cyber Security Academy
Mayowa came to us looking for help to apply for a Civil Service Cyber-Security Apprenticeship, having re-trained in Cyber Security following a 25+ year career in Finance. This was Mayowa’s dream job and a great opportunity to start building a new career in this highly competitive field.
Mayowa used our Graduate CV, Application Form and Interview Coaching services to create a tailored CV and application.
Mayowa secured an Entry Level Security Professional role which included an intensive 10-week Cyber Security training programme before moving into a Government Security role in a priority security team within Government.
“I just wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for all your help – Your commitment and expertise made a real difference in my job search. From revising my CV to the interview prep, I truly appreciate the effort you put in and I can’t thank you enough for your advice during our session, it was absolutely the difference maker, Mayowa”
How our Interview Coaching Service works
We provide Standard interview coaching to improve your interview skills overall, or Focused interview coaching to help you prepare for an upcoming interview for a specific role. We offer interview coaching by Microsoft Teams or Telephone as standard, or you can upgrade to a Face-to-Face Interview Coaching session in our Cardiff or Bristol offices. We also provide add-on services including Interview Example Review and full Mock Interviews to help you develop your interview performance. See below for a step-by-step guide to your interview coaching session.
Standard & Focused interview coaching
Standard Interview Coaching
Our Standard Interview Coaching can help you prepare for any interview but will be aimed at helping you prepare for a type of role (e.g., Project Manager), or roles in a certain sector (e.g., accountancy). You do not need to have an interview for a specific role to use this service.
Focused Interview Coaching
Our Focused Interview Coaching can help you prepare for an interview for a specific role (e.g., an upcoming interview for a job you have applied for). We will use the Job Description & Person Specification for any target roles to identify the most likely interview questions to come up.
Interview coaching sessions via Microsoft Teams or in-person
Microsoft Teams Interview Coaching
Our Interview Coaching is delivered via Microsoft Teams as standard, offering convenience and flexibility. We can also record and/or transcribe your interview coaching session enabling you to review your own performance.
Face-to-Face Interview Coaching (Cardiff / Bristol)
You can also upgrade to in-person interview coaching at our offices in Cardiff or Bristol. This gives you a vital chance to practice and gain confidence in presenting yourself at in-person / on-site interviews.
Step-by-step guide to our Interview Coaching process
Step-by-step guide to our Interview Coaching process
Before your interview coaching session
Before your interview coaching session we will ask you to send some details to help your interview coach to prepare effectively, ensuring you get the most from your interview coaching session. Preparation will vary depending on whether you are using our Standard or Focused interview coaching service:
Standard Interview Coaching
With our Standard Interview Coaching service, we will ask you to send us a copy of your CV along with details of the type of job role and approximate salary level you are targeting. This will enable your interview coach to tailor your session to fit with the type of role, sector and career level you are aiming for.
Focused Interview Coaching
If you have selected our Focused Interview Coaching option, we will also ask you to send details of any roles you are being interviewed for. Your Interview Coach will spend time before your session assessing the Job Description / Person Specification for your target role(s). This will enable your coach to identify the exact questions you are likely to face in your upcoming interview.
Stage 1) Assessing your current skill level
At the beginning of your session your Interview Coach will discuss with you which areas of your interview technique you feel require the most work and what aspects of the interview you are feeling most anxious or stressed about. This will include discussing your your previous interview performance and any unsuccessful interviews you have attended to help analyse what went wrong and where you can improve.
Standard Interview Coaching
Your Interview Coach will then ask you some relevant test interview questions of the type you will be likely to face in a real interview. This will enable your Interview Coach to assess your current skill level effectively and highlight which areas require the most attention for you.
Focused Interview Coaching
With our Focused Interview Coaching option, your test questions will be based directly on the Person Specification for your target role and any information provided about your upcoming interview. This ensures your test questions will be as close as possible to the ‘real thing’.
Stage 2) Coaching to develop your interview skills
Next, your Interview Coach will provide detailed feedback on your answers to the test interview questions.
Standard & Focused Interview Coaching
With both our Standard & Focused Interview Coaching, this feed back will include:
- How well you listened to and understood the interview questions
- How well your examples demonstrated the relevant skills / competencies
- If you included all the required / relevant information in your answers
- If you provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate your skills, experience and achievements
- How well you delivered your answers
- If you interacted appropriately with the interviewer
- If you said or did anything likely to give a bad impression or put off interviewers
Once you and your Interview Coach have identified the key issues and areas you need help with, they will then work with you to improve your interview technique. This can include:
- Helping you to anticipate questions / skills likely to come up (to help you prepare)
- Preparation of standard answers to Tough Questions you may be asked at interview
- Helping you to develop your answers to Skill / Competency Based Interview Questions
- Helping you select the best interview examples to demonstrate your skills and achievements
- Preparing answers to Strength Based, Value Based and Scenario Based Interview Questions
- Guidance on how to Research a potential employer before your interview
- Providing Relevant Questions for you to ask a potential employer at interview
- Improving your Body Language to demonstrate your interest
- Practical advice to improve your confidence at interview and banish interview nerves!
Focused Interview Coaching
In addition to all the above, our ‘Focused Interview Coaching’ will involve working on answers to the actual interview questions most likely to come up at your interview (based on Person Specification & Interview Format information).
Stage 3) Mock Interview to practice your new skills
Standard & Focused Interview Coaching
At the end of the session we can stage a short Mock Interview to allow you to benchmark your progress and practice your new techniques. Because we use real job interview questions throughout you can be assured that you will gain a realistic understanding of your interview performance has improved. Our clients find this one of the most helpful aspects of our interview coaching.
Focused Interview Coaching
With our ‘Focused Interview Coaching’, your Mock Interview will be based on the exact questions most likely to come up at your interview.
We also offer a full 30 Minute Mock Interview Service
After session follow up
Standard & Focused Interview Coaching
You will receive a full written Interview Coaching Feedback Report including notes on everything covered during your session. This will include details of strong points, areas for improvement and general advice for each of the interview questions covered as well as advice on improving your overall approach and confidence. Your Interview Coach will also recommend specific areas for you to continue working on in your own time after the session.
Includes a full Interview Coaching Feedback Report
How many sessions are required?
We find that one interview coaching session is enough for most of our clients to build their interview skills and confidence, but we have also worked with some clients over multiple interview coaching sessions. We can build a bespoke interview coaching package just for you, based on your individual needs and requirements. Please contact us for further details.
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Your interview problems, solved….
We can assist with all aspects of the interview process but typically, clients who come to us for Interview Coaching are experiencing difficulty with one or all of the following:
Are you struggling to sell your skills and experience to interviewers effectively?
This could include being unsure about how to answer Competency Based or other tough interview questions, such as those on weaknesses, failures and other random questions intended to catch you out! We can also help you to ‘translate’ your experience effectively from one type of role to another, if you are changing career or moving back to employment from self-employment.
Unsure how to explain redundancy, employment gaps or a career change?
In the challenging economic climate of recent years, many people have been forced to change career paths following redundancy, take a break from work for health reasons or to undertake family care duties. We know it can be tough to explain these career moves at interview but our Interview Coaches can assist you to explain these types of transition and other career dilemmas in a way which will not put off interviewers.
Are you unsure about how to prepare for Assessment Centres?
Many of our clients are unfamiliar with what will be involved or how to prepare effectively for Assessment Centre exercises such as Presentations, In-Tray Exercises, Verbal Reasoning or Numerical Reasoning tests which form part of many modern interviews. We can help you to approach these tests with confidence and to prepare effectively for Graduate Scheme Assessments.
Are you out of practise or confused about what employers want?
Many of our Interview Coaching clients have been in the same role for many years and are now faced with the daunting prospect of facing a job interview to secure a new role. As a result, many are nervous about the whole interview process and what will be expected of them, as well as being unsure how to present themselves effectively to potential employers. Our interview Coaches can help explain the process to you and ensure you know what to expect.
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Professional Interview Coaching – Prices & Ordering
To ensure that we pitch your interview coaching at the right level and offer maximum benefit to you, we provide Interview Coaching at 4 different career levels (Entry Level, Graduate, Professional and Senior Manager / Executive). This is because interview questions for senior roles are generally more in-depth / complex, meaning more time is required for our preparation and follow-up work. We provide Standard interview coaching to improve your interview skills overall, or Focused interview coaching to help you prepare for an upcoming interview for a specific role. Interview Coaching is completed via Microsoft Teams or telephone. You can also upgrade to a Face-to-Face Interview Coaching session in our Cardiff or Bristol offices.
Graduate Interview Coaching (Graduate / Student)
£149.99
60 Minute Session Microsoft Teams
Interview Coaching Service Upgrades & Add-Ons
Upgrade to Focused Interview Coaching (+£29.99)
Our Focused Interview Coaching can help you prepare for an interview for a specific role (e.g., an upcoming interview for a job you have applied for). We will use the Job Description & Person Specification for any target roles to identify the most likely interview questions to come up.
Upgrade to Face-to-Face Interview Coaching (+£79.99)
You can upgrade to an in-person / face-to-face Interview Coaching sessions at our offices in Cardiff, Bristol City Centre or Bristol Aztec West.
Upgrade to Extended Mock Interview (+£39.99)
Our interview coaching service includes a short (15 minute) mock interview to practice your new skills. You can upgrade your interview coaching to include to a full 30 minute mock interview with detailed written feedback for £39.99.
Upgrade to Priority Booking Next Working Day (+£29.99)
We understand that sometimes you need to move fast to take advantage of an opportunity. We offer next working day priority booking with all of our interview coaching services. Add this option when ordering (subject to availability).
Upgrade to Extended Coaching Session (from £49.99)
Need more support? You can add extra time to your Interview Coaching session in 30 minute blocks to extend time with your Interview Coach by up to 1 hour. Prices based on career level – Extra time can be added when ordering your Interview Coaching session.
Add Interview Example Review (+£24.99 per example)
Your Interview Coach can also review examples you are planning to use at interview to demonstrate key skills or competencies. This includes reviewing each of your examples and suggesting how these can be strengthened by adding additional detail. You interview coach can also assess how well each of your examples is likely to perform and help you select alternative examples from your experience where required. You can add this option to your coaching package for £24.99 (per example).
Step-by-step guide to our Interview Coaching process
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If you would like more information about our Interview Coaching services, please call 0800 246 1857 or submit your details below.