How it works
No packages.
No portal. No script.
Sessions are working sessions. You talk, I interrupt, we rebuild it, and you leave with the reworked version written down. Here's the whole process, start to finish.
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You write in
Use the contact form and give me a few lines: what's happening, what you'd like to be different, and any date that matters — an interview, a review, a decision you can't defer. You don't need to have it neatly diagnosed.
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I reply with what I think the problem is
Usually within a couple of working days. I'll say what I think the real issue is, what a first session would cover, and what it would cost. If I don't think I'm the right person — or that you need a session at all — I'll tell you that instead. It happens, and it's free.
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We agree scope in writing before anything is charged
Number of sessions, focus, timing and rate, confirmed by email. Nothing is taken from the website, and there's no subscription running quietly in the background.
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We do the work out loud
Remote video, one-to-one, typically an hour. Expect to be doing most of the talking and to be stopped mid-answer — that's the mechanism, not rudeness. Bring the job description, the notes, the draft, whatever is real.
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You get the written version
After each session I send notes: the reworked answers, what we decided, and what to practise before we next speak. That's the artefact you keep and re-use, long after the specific interview is over.
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We stop when it's done
Plenty of people need one session before a specific conversation. Some want a handful across a few weeks. Nobody is enrolled in anything, and I won't invent a reason to keep meeting.
Practical detail
The boring but useful bits.
Format
Remote video, one-to-one. Audio-only is fine if you'd rather. Never a group, never pre-recorded.
Length
An hour is the usual unit. Interview rehearsals sometimes run to ninety minutes because practice takes real time.
Cadence
Set by what you're preparing for. Weekly before an interview process; every few weeks when the question is direction.
Time zones
Clients are in several. We find a slot that isn't unreasonable for either of us, and I confirm it in your time zone.
Between sessions
Short follow-up questions by email are included. If it turns into a second session's worth of work, I'll say so rather than let it drift.
Rescheduling
Life happens. Tell me as early as you reasonably can and we'll move it — the agreed terms cover how that works.
What to bring
Real material beats a tidy summary.
Sessions are far more useful when we're working on the actual thing rather than a description of it.
- The job description, brief or agenda — whatever the conversation is actually about
- Your current CV, profile or summary, however unfinished
- Any feedback you've been given, including the vague and unhelpful kind
- The question you're dreading being asked
- A date, if there is one — it changes how we sequence the work
If none of that exists yet, come anyway. Building the first version is a perfectly good use of a first session.
Fair warning
What I won't do.
Promise you an outcome
Write your answers for you
Sell you sessions you don't need
Take employer money
Use your situation as material
Ready when you are.
Send the situation and the date that matters. You'll get a straight answer about whether a session would help.