Practise the interview you are actually going to have. Role-specific questions, answers with a structure behind them, and honest feedback on how you come across — from someone whose job is to tell you, not to be polite.
Getting the interview means the resume worked. Losing at the interview stage usually comes down to two fixable things: answers with no structure, and no rehearsal. Canadian employers lean heavily on behavioural questions — “tell me about a time when” — and they are scoring whether you can give a specific example with a result on the end of it, not whether you are a good person.
That is a learnable format. STAR (situation, task, action, result) is not a trick; it is simply the shape a hiring manager needs the answer in so they can compare you fairly against the other four candidates. Most people already have the examples. What they do not have is the examples chosen in advance, trimmed to ninety seconds, and said out loud before the day.
We run the interview as it will actually happen: questions for the role you are interviewing for, follow-ups when an answer is thin, and feedback afterwards on structure, specificity, pace and the things you would never notice on your own. If English is not your first language, we work on being clearly understood rather than on sounding like somebody else.
One session is usually enough to change how an interview goes. Two is enough to change how you feel walking in.
A live interview run the way the employer will run it, with follow-up questions when an answer does not hold up. Not a list of questions emailed to you.
The “tell me about a time” and “what would you do if” questions that decide most Canadian interviews, practised until the answers are steady.
We pick your strongest examples and shape them into answers with a situation, an action and a result — roughly ninety seconds each, not five minutes.
Questions drawn from the actual posting and sector, whether that is child care, warehousing, administration, healthcare support or an office role.
Clarity, pace, filler words, how you handle a question you did not expect, and what to do when your mind goes blank. Written down so you can work on it.
The questions to ask them, how to handle salary when it comes up early, and what to send afterwards.
Book this once you have an interview date, or before you start applying if interviews are what usually go wrong for you.
The job posting and your resume, so the questions match the role rather than being generic.
Before the sessionA full run-through with follow-ups. Recorded if you want it, so you can hear what the interviewer heard.
45 – 60 minutesWhat worked, what did not, and the two or three answers worth rebuilding before the real interview.
Same sessionOptional. The same interview again with the reworked answers, which is where most of the confidence comes from.
Before the interview dateInterview preparation is the last step. These are the ones before it.
Not getting to the interview stage at all? The resume is where to start.
More interviews to practise for, from better-targeted applications.
Interview coaching bundled with the resume, the applications and a weekly strategy session.
Because past behaviour is the most defensible predictor they have, and because it makes candidates comparable. A hiring manager scoring five people needs everyone answering the same question about a real situation, not describing how they see themselves. It also means the interview is winnable through preparation: the examples are already in your history, and the work is choosing them and shaping them before the day.
Being understood matters; sounding Canadian does not. In practice the problems that cost people offers are answers that run four minutes without reaching a point, and going quiet when a question was not understood. Both are fixable in a session. We work on structure, on shorter sentences, and on the perfectly normal move of asking the interviewer to repeat a question.
Most people book one before a specific interview, and that is usually enough to fix structure and pick the right examples. A second session is worth it if the first surfaced a lot to rework, or if this is a role you really want and you would rather walk in having already done it once.
Yes, and you should. A free TSH account includes interview drills and a mock interview tool you can run as many times as you like, at no cost. Doing a few rounds there before a live session means we spend the hour on the things a tool cannot see.
Send us the posting. We will run it the way they will, and tell you exactly what to change before the day.