Career Launch
Practise on somebody whose opinion costs you nothing
Every job seeker's first interview after graduating is usually a real one, and it is usually wasted learning what the format feels like. This puts them through it with a professional in their target role, and tells them precisely what to fix.
You cannot rehearse an interview by yourself.
Reading questions builds none of what an interview actually demands: thinking while somebody watches, being followed up on a vague answer, and staying composed when the question lands outside what you revised.
The value is not the score. It is a specific, ordered list of what to work on — which is the one thing a real rejection almost never gives you.
What the interview covers
25 topics across 5 areas. Matched to the role each participant is targeting.
Introduction and ResumeThe first ten minutes, where most of the damage happens.5
- Tell me about yourself
- Walking through the resume
- Explaining the gap since graduating
- Why this role
- Why this company
Role FundamentalsAssessed against the target role, not a generic syllabus.4
- Core concepts for that role
- Applied rather than recited
- Follow-up questions on anything claimed
- Where the knowledge stops
Project or Work DiscussionWhatever evidence they have, questioned properly.5
- What problem it solved
- What they personally did
- Why those choices
- What went wrong
- What they would change
Behavioural and HRCommunication, honesty and expectations.5
- A difficulty, a failure, a disagreement
- How they take feedback
- Salary expectations
- Relocation and shifts
- What they want next
Feedback Against a Common FrameSpecific, ordered and written down.6
Every participant leaves with three questions answered: what am I doing well, what needs improvement, and what do I fix first.
- Role fundamentals
- Communication and structure
- Resume credibility
- Evidence and depth
- Composure under follow-up
- Role understanding
Tracks available
- Software development
- Data and analytics
- Business analysis
- QA and testing
- Cloud, DevOps and infrastructure
- Sales and business development
- Marketing
- Finance and operations
- HR and people
- General management trainee
What participants do beforehand
- Choose one target role
- Bring the resume they are actually sending
- Revise the fundamentals for that role
- Be ready to explain everything listed
- Prepare a self-introduction
- Treat it as real, because the feedback is only as good as the attempt
How the session runs
Interviewers are matched to each participant's target role — a data candidate meets somebody who does data work. Each gets a full round with follow-up questioning, then structured written feedback. Interviewers are briefed to probe rather than trap: the purpose is a usable list of what to fix, not a demonstration of how much a fresher does not know.
What your students leave with
- A realistic experience of being interviewed and followed up on
- Specific feedback on fundamentals rather than a grade
- Weaknesses in their resume found before a recruiter finds them
- A better account of their own work
- A practised response to questions they cannot answer
- Three things to fix, in priority order
Scheduled sessions
Nothing scheduled yet
Sessions are arranged with a college once a date is agreed. Ask us and we will find the right person for it.
A student rather than a college? See what is coming up, or ask your placement team to host this.
Make the mistakes where they cost nothing.
Tell us who your students are and what stage they are at. Sessions are free for participants.