December 22, 2025

HST Interviews: 5 Proven Tips for Doctors

How to Succeed at HST Interviews: 5 Expert Tips for Doctors You’ve chosen your specialty. You’ve put in the years of training. Now you’re facing the final hurdle on the journey to becoming a consultant: the Higher Specialist Training (HST) interview. These interviews are highly competitive, tightly timed, and designed […]
December 22, 2025
top three interview mistakes

Top 3 Interview Mistakes

Being told that you were unsuccessful in interview is a brutal blow but it is important to view each interview as a learning experience, quickly identify where you fell down and make the necessary changes to ensure that next time round you get over the line. To help you critically assess your performance, I have outlined below the five most common interview mistakes.
December 2, 2025
What your body language says about you at interview

What your body language says about you in job interviews

Pictures speak louder than words…………………This is particularly true in an interview situation where body language plays a significant factor in determining whether an employer sees you as a trustworthy, confident, capable individual who has a future with their company.  Interestingly, research has shown that words by themselves account for only 7% of the impact of your message, a hefty 38% of the message is transmitted by tone of voice and the remaining 55% is communicated by body language.
December 1, 2025
Public Sector Interview

How to nail Competency-Based Public Sector Interviews

How to nail Competency-Based Public Sector Interviews Embarking on competency-based interviews in the public sector for the first time can be a daunting experience, especially if you’re coming from the private sector. Public sector interviews have their unique characteristics, with a significant emphasis on competency questions. In fact, these questions […]