English · Specialist course
English for job interviews practice, with a tutor who actually interrupts
Rehearsing answers alone builds confidence in the wrong things. What exposes a weak answer is a follow-up question you were not expecting.
- CEFR B1
Who this is for
Is this the right course for you?
Professionals interviewing in English, candidates preparing for a specific role, and anyone who has been rejected after interviews they thought went well.
What you cover
What the lessons cover
- Structuring an answer so it lands in ninety seconds rather than four minutes
- Talking about your own work without minimising or overselling it
- The questions people freeze on, rehearsed until they are ordinary
- Handling follow-ups and challenges without losing the thread
- Asking good questions at the end, which is assessed whether or not it is scored
- Full mock interviews with recorded review and written feedback
Interview English is a rehearsal course. The sessions are run as interviews, with follow-up questions, interruptions and requests for specifics, then reviewed.
Length is the usual problem
Strong candidates often lose interviews to answers that are three times too long. Learning to land a complete answer in ninety seconds is the highest-return change most people make.
Talking about your own work
English-speaking interview convention expects a first-person account of what you personally did. Candidates from cultures with stronger norms around collective credit routinely undersell themselves without realising it. This is a convention rather than a language problem, and it is easily corrected once named.
English for Job Interviews questions, answered properly
How is this different from general conversation practice?
Interview English is a narrow, high-pressure register with strong conventions, and it is practised under pressure rather than discussed. Sessions are run as interviews — you are interrupted, challenged and asked for specifics. Then we review what worked. General conversation practice will not produce that, because nothing is at stake.
I speak good English but keep failing interviews. Can you help?
Often, yes, because the problem is usually structure rather than language. The most common pattern is answers that start well and run for four minutes, losing the interviewer halfway. The second is candidates who describe what their team did and never say what they did. Both are fixable in a handful of sessions.
Can we prepare for a specific job?
Yes, and it works much better than generic practice. Send the job description and, if you have it, the interview format. Sessions then work through the questions that role is likely to generate, in the language that role uses, which is a very different preparation from general interview practice.
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