Interview Coaching
Get More Interviews
Be the person they most like, trust, and feel confident about so you get more offers.
Land Lucrative Offers with Interview Coaching
Interviewing for a new job can be stressful. YES can help you reduce your stress and even enjoy interviewing for a change. When using our proprietary Interview
AikidoTM technique, ...
- you will help interviewers love you,
- you find out what they most need in a candidate, and
- come away from the interview knowing how well the interviewer believes you did. In fact,
- you will help the interviewers reveal any objections they have to your being the top candidate, and
- you will coach them to overcome those objections, so that
- not only do you shine in these hard-won interviews but also you get more and better offers.
What Our Interview Coaching Offers
What if your resume or your recruiter got you to the first interview but not to the second, third, and final round of interviews? That would be a total waste of the time and money you invested in building your resume and cover letter, not to mention the time and emotional energy you spent to go through interviews.
That is why we developed our state-of-the-art, proprietary interview technique, Interview AikidoTM. Using Interview AikidoTM ensures that not only do you come across as technically qualified but also as the candidate whom the interviewers most like and want to hire.
How Interview Coaching Benefits You
Our persuasive cover letter and resume, as well as LinkedIn profile that will cause recruiters to find and contact you, will generate many interviews. But each one is a highly competitive opportunity that you don't want to waste.
- Our Interview AikidoTM training and mock interview will give you the chance to practice your interviewing skills so that you get more offers.
- After your mock interview with our Interview AikidoTM coach, you’ll get expert coaching on what’s great, what can be improved, and how to come across as their perfect fit.
- You can also take advantage of information you gather during the interview to negotiate better offers when they come.
Why People Love Us
At YES, each client gets the VIP treatment. Depending on the package you choose, you will be assigned a client success manager, career coach, interview coach, resume interviewer, resume writer, and one to two resume editors—all dedicated to ensuring you get results.
When the opportunity arose for me to move jobs, YES was right there. From how to interview to how to negotiate.
Brian S.
Senior Cybersecurity Risk Analyst
I was looking to improve my interviewing skills. YES helped me with skills that made me more confident during interviews. I got the results that I wanted - I was able to get my foot in the door in IT.
Jamal D.
IT Specialist
After doing the mock interview I was hired ON THE SPOT! This is about getting your dream job – and I certainly got mine.
Susan L.
Senior Analyst
Michael’s sessions were really useful. My favorite was ranking what I value most in my career. It helped me land the job I wanted through networking.
Ayana P.
Senior Manager
Interview Coaching Packages
In addition to a client success manager, resume interviewer, resume writer, and one to two resume editors, you will also have an interview coach. These packages—whether the self-starter versions or full service—give you all the tools most people need to get their dream job.
Career Accelerator
This package gives you tools and support to conduct a successful job search, assuming you’ve narrowed down what you want and can keep yourself on track.
What You Can Expect:
- 1Resume and Cover Letter
- 2LinkedIn Profile
- 3Interview Aikido Training Video and Guide
- 4Mock Interview
- 5Interview Guarantee
Bonuses:
- 1Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- 2Live Resume Interview, if desired
- 3Raining Recruiters Guide
- 4Job Search Aikido Course
- 5LinkedIn Reach-out Templates
- 6Goal Setting Toolkit
- 7Career Rater and Ranking Tool
- 8Event Networking Genius
- 9Rock Your Inner Game
- 105 Job Search Strategies Beyond the Resume
- 11Network Like a Pro
$2800
financing starting at
$28 / month
Career Catapult
This package provides full service and support to ensure you get a job. It’s the best choice for someone wanting strategy, accountability, and coaching along the way; changing fields; or considering two or more career directions.
What You Can Expect:
- 1Career Potential Report
- 212 Career Strategy/Salary Negotiation/Career Advancement Sessions
- 3Resume
- 4Cover Letter
- 5LinkedIn Profile
- 6Interview Aikido Training Video and Guide
- 7Mock Interview
- 8Job Offer Guarantee
Bonuses:
- 1Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- 2Raining Recruiters Guide
- 3Live Resume Interview, if desired
- 4Job Search Aikido Course
- 5LinkedIn Reach-out Templates
- 6Goal Setting Toolkit
- 7Career Rater and Ranking Tool
- 8Event Networking Genius
- 9Rock Your Inner Game
- 10Five Job Search Strategies Beyond the Resume
- 11Network Like a Pro
$4900
financing starting at
$49 / month
Power Move
This package provides white glove service for the busy professional who wants to outsource their job search and networking setup. Reverse recruiting professionals do the work to ensure you get a job as easily as possible.
What You Can Expect:
- 1Resumes (up to 20/month)
- 2Cover Letters (up to 20/month)
- 3Job Opportunity Identification (up to 20/month)
- 4LinkedIn Profile
- 5Application Submission (12–20/month)
- 6Networking Research & Outreach
- 7Interview Aikido Training Video and Guide
- 8Interview Prep Documents
- 9Mock Interviews
- 10Reporting & Communication
- 11Salary Negotiation Coaching
- 12Six-Month Job Offer Guarantee
Bonuses:
- 1Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- 2Raining Recruiters Guide
- 3Live Resume Interviews, if desired
- 4Goal Setting Toolkit
- 5Career Rater and Ranking Tool
- 6Job Search Aikido Course
- 7Event Networking Genius
- 8Rock Your Inner Game
- 95 Job Search Strategies Beyond the Resume
- 10Network Like a Pro
$14000*
financing starting at
$140 / month
*same day price
Interview Coaching Success Stories
Satisfaction and Interview Guaranteed
We guarantee you'll be completely satisfied with your Cover Letter, Resume, and LinkedIn Profile and that they'll get you interviewed. And most people get the next job they interview for after receiving and integrating the Interview AikidoTM feedback. We can’t wait to give you your edge for success.
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Frequently Asked Questions
If you are getting interviews but not offers (or offers you want), you should consider interview coaching. Interviewing for a job isn’t a skillset taught in most schools. As a result, the only way candidates can think of preparing for an interview has been limited to studying the recommended answers to common interview questions. Here are some popular articles on the topic of common interview questions:
But before you put too much time into these articles, check out the unusual but important questions below, which can make all the difference for you.
Working hard to get interviews and not getting the offer (or the offer you want) is an exhausting proposition and one that delays your financial reward. Considering that YES clients get an average of 20% more in pay at their new job, every single day that you get rejected costs you financially, as well as emotionally. If you are investing in a new resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile, signing up for interview coaching is like buying an insurance policy on those investments. You should get that policy when you make your investment, right upfront. Another reason to do that is to make sure you'll get a mock interview slot well before you are in last-minute interview prep mode.
While interview coaching is focused on your performance during the interview, a great career coaching program—which should include networking training, interview coaching, and negotiation preparation—will help you land many more interviews and can go much deeper in helping you learn how to collect information you can then use during salary negotiation.
Yes. We have had clients all over the world; location makes no difference. Coaching services are done by Zoom, and we have both noon-time and evening times Eastern available to accommodate different time zones.
Yes, we do! The service includes a training video, written training guide, and 90-minute mock interview with coaching by President Katherine Akbar—the world’s only Interview AikidoTM coach. Check our reviews to see how much people love and benefit from this.
If you limit yourself to the same strategies that everyone else uses—that is, preparing to answer the most common interview questions—how does that set you apart? Also, why do you think employers ask these questions? Let me answer the second question first. Employers ask these job interview questions because they are desperate to make sure they do not select the wrong person, and they hope their questions can help them figure out who will be the best choice. In reality, most have no established methodology to evaluate your answers to make optimal decisions. But because they don’t have a better system, they settle for asking typical interview questions, including a lot of behavioral interview questions. (If you want some free help with these, click on the links above under the first question.)
So, if behavioral interview questions and answers are not really helping the interviewers, and by preparing for them, you are only putting yourself on par with other candidates, what is a better way? How can you gain the competitive edge in a job interview? Check the next question for more information.
You might feel like you’re so good at your work that you don’t need interview coaching or help of any kind. This attitude often backfires and wastes great opportunities. You might be one of the top performers in your field, but your experiences at work might not equate to skill at handling interviewers’ worries during job interviews.
Brain studies prove that people buy emotionally, even if they later justify their decisions intellectually. The same phenomenon affects the interview process. Your interview success will not come exclusively through preparing for the most common interview questions but rather through psychological influence on your interviewers. Remember, everyone who is invited to an interview has already been deemed qualified based on their resume. So how to prepare for an interview comes down to using emotional intelligence and influence to get into the interviewers’ hearts—you are already on their minds.
That’s where professional interview coaching can help. An interview coach can help you understand what to expect during your next job interview. She can also teach you the best and most appropriate ways to handle the hard questions.
Most importantly, a good professional interview coach can teach you how to explain what you’ve accomplished in your career that will make you irresistible to hiring managers. She'll show you how to get out of your head and into a professional relationship with the humans interviewing you and guide you on questions to ask interviewer that will get you out of the hot seat and into a seat on the team.
Companies and managers want to hire people who can solve their problems right away. During interview coaching, you’ll learn how to present your skills and experience so that the interviewer will see you as being able to solve the department’s problems.
You’ll also get to practice the new skills you’re learning, including good questions to ask in an interview, in a low-stakes environment by practicing and role playing with your coach. Everyone performs better when they’re relaxed and comfortable. The best ways to become relaxed and comfortable during job interviews are (1) to practice with an interview coach beforehand and (2) to put your focus during interviews on building a relationship with a person in need (the interviewer), not selling yourself.
At YES, we use a proprietary interview methodology we developed called Interview Aikido™. “Aikido” is a Japanese word meaning “the way of unifying energy.” In the world of job interviews, Interview Aikido™ is a methodology where you flip the script and interview your interviewers while they’re interviewing you. The best approach to getting the job, the salary, and the relationship with your prospective boss that you want is to approach the interview as an equal partner with the interviewer. Interview Aikido™ helps you do exactly that.
You'll learn how to ...
- Quickly develop rapport with your interviewers
- Make yourself and the interviewers more relaxed
- Gather specific information about what your interviewer is looking for in a potential hire
- Get them to solve any concerns they have about you
- And ultimately, get one or more job offers (Half of our clients get two!)
In other words, our goal is to enable and empower you to ace your next job interviews. That will result in options, offers, and increased pay.
Katherine Akbar is the world’s only Interview AikidoTM coach, so you can only get this method here. She is working on publishing a book about this method. Her extensive experience in interview coaching and knowledge of psychology can help you nail your next offer.
Yes! You will also learn and can practice informational interview questions, because Interview AikidoTM is also an effective tool to build a network of advocates who can hire or refer you.
Yes, there is, if you get a career coaching package that gives you all the tools you will need. The one on this page that does that is Career Strategy Rocket Fuel. For smaller packages, you receive a satisfaction guarantee. If you require any changes to your Resume, Cover Letter, or LinkedIn Profile to make them perfect for the job you provided as a sample, we will take care of those for free. You will receive these guarantees in writing in our Professional Services Agreement. To get started, book your free Career Success Consultation below.
Interview coaching is a personalized service that helps job seekers improve their performance in interviews through stress management, proper preparation, question answering and asking strategies, mock interviews, and expert feedback.
Yes, interview coaching can significantly increase your chances of landing a job by improving your preparation process, stress management steps, communication of selling points and stories, rapport building, and question asking and answering skills.
Interview coaching typically includes a guide to how to prepare, answer expected questions, and ask great questions; mock interviews; feedback on answers, appearance, and rapport; and personalized improvement guidance.
Interview coaches are often experienced career success professionals, former recruiters, or HR experts with extensive knowledge of the hiring process and interview best practices.
A session usually includes a mock interview and immediate feedback, along with review of recommended strategies and actionable suggestions for improvement. Coaches at YES will also provide a video recording of the mock interview.
Prices vary depending on the coach's experience and what is included but typically range from $100 to $300 per hour-long session or more for premium packages.
Many clients see improvement after just one session, though ongoing coaching over several weeks can lead to more substantial and lasting results. If your package only includes one session, make sure that you will receive a recording and/or transcript so that you can review and continue to improve from the advice given.
Sessions can be conducted in person, over the phone, or via video conferencing platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams for convenience and flexibility.
While salary negotiation isn't part of interview coaching per se, many career coaches offer guidance on how to effectively negotiate salary, benefits, and job terms as part of their comprehensive career coaching services.
A mock interview is a simulated job interview that allows candidates to practice their rapport building, responses, and questions, eventually receiving constructive feedback on what often felt like a real interview. Mock interviews also give candidates the opportunity to see if their stress management and intellectual preparation steps were sufficient to the task of showing up as the candidate the hiring manager will most like, trust, and feel confident about hiring.