Are your interviews doing their job? (online workshops)
If you’re getting interviews, but few callbacks and no offers, your résumé is doing its job. That also suggests your interviews aren’t.
Reserve a seat for Confidence That Sells
Reserve a seat for Confidence That Sells, a two-day workshop to help ensure your interviews are as effective as your résumé and search strategy.
Workshops are led by Paul Thomas, a corporate communications veteran of 30+ years, including 16 at UBS and 4 at Thomson Reuters, who regularly prepared executives for high-stakes leadership conversations and media interviews with The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other publications. He earned an MBA in management strategy and marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Getting interviews but no offers?
If so, your résumé is doing its job. And your interviews aren’t.
If your conversations with hiring managers aren’t advancing to next rounds or generating offers, something about the interview isn’t right — and it may not be what you think.
I didn’t know either
I’m in communications, and nobody ever taught me how to interview. I got a sample résumé, a sample cover letter, and a “go find postings and apply” send-off. That was it.
No hiring manager ever told me when I said something stupid. Recruiters gave me polite, useless feedback. I didn’t understand why the conversations weren’t leading to callbacks or offers.
So how was I supposed to know?
For a long time, I thought I interviewed well.
Then I spent a year unemployed, getting interviews, but few callbacks and no offers.
Maybe I wasn’t as good at interviewing as I thought.
About 40 weeks in, I had to face an uncomfortable possibility.
Fortunately, a recruiter asked me a single question that changed how I’ve prepared for every interview since. It stopped me from underselling my impact by describing the programs I ran instead of what happened because I ran them.
What I realized
- I drove cultural change through the communications I created for leaders and employees.
- I mitigated risk by identifying client pain points in operational processes and related communications, flagging them to the people responsible, and escalating them to management when no action was taken.
- I was more than a communicator: I also functioned as a change agent and risk manager.
- My impact — and the reputation I built on it — extended well beyond the communications and other skills I used to deliver results.
That recruiter’s question also surfaced something I rarely mentioned in interviews, lest I appear too junior or “in the weeds”: the boring, repetitive shit. The stuff too unglamorous to bring up turned out to be some of the clearest evidence of what I knew how to do and the impact I had on clients, employees, and the business.
What I learned from that one question became the foundation of Confidence That Sells.
Are your interviews working?
If they are, you don’t need this. If they’re not, or you’re honestly not sure, this workshop is exactly for you.
No one is with us in the room during interviews. This isn’t about memorizing better answers: it’s about understanding what you actually do, who you do it for, and why it matters. And whether the hiring manager sitting across the table remembers you and what you do, instead of every other candidate whose résumé looks as good as, if not better than, yours.
Résumés get you interviews, but they make every candidate look remarkably similar. Interviews get you offers if you make sure you’re memorable and stand out.
You might be a pretty good interviewer who needs to get sharper. You might discover you’re worse at this than you thought. I certainly did.
Either way, it’s fixable. And that’s what the two-day workshop is for.
Confidence That Sells
A pay-what-you-can* interview preparation workshop for professionals
This two-session workshop is for you if you’re a professional who’s already getting interviews with hiring managers — not just recruiter or HR screens — but those interviews aren’t leading to offers.
It’s not for you if you need help getting any interviews or want a better résumé or LinkedIn profile; this workshop doesn’t cover those topics.
Online workshop dates
9:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m. ET /
6:00 a.m. — 10:00 a.m. PT
Thursdays and Fridays
November 5–6
November 12–13
November 19–20
1:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. ET /
10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m. PT
Mondays and Tuesdays
November 2–3
November 9–10
4:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m. ET /
1:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. PT
Mondays and Tuesdays
November 16–17
November 30–Dec. 1
Online workshop formats and requirements
Live, interactive workshop — not a webinar
Work takes place in large groups, small groups, and pairs
Includes a digital participant workbook
Maximum 30 participants for pay-what-you-can* sessions
Smaller groups with more personal feedback are available for the full price
Workshop content is identical for all versions
Participants are encouraged to attend both sessions in full and do the work — for themselves and as a courtesy to the session’s other participants.
The workshop process requires curiosity and active participation; it isn’t something you can watch and absorb.
* A note about ‘pay what you can‘
There are two versions of the Confidence That Sells job interview prep workshop. Both versions use the same exact content and exercises.
The full-price workshop is $300 per participant. The pay-what-you-can version has more participants and works in breakout groups. The full-price version has fewer participants and does every exercise as a full group.
I offer workshops on a pay-what-you-can basis because I know that many people who could benefit from interview preparation have been unemployed for months and are watching every dollar.
In those cases, I’d rather show than tell. If it’s helpful, pay what it’s worth. If it isn’t, you’ve lost two days, not money.
Just remember: “helpful” means this workshop helps you develop better responses to questions; you’re the only person in the room with the interviewers. I can’t get you a job. I can only help you develop Confidence That Sells.
If you can pay the full amount, that’s great. It helps me make the workshop available to people who otherwise can’t attend. If you can pay part of it, that’s also great.
If you genuinely can’t afford to pay anything right now, book a seat. I want to invest in people who are committed to improving how they interview.
All I ask is: Show up, participate fully, do the work, contribute and support the other people you work with, and have fun.
A $50 refundable deposit holds your seat. Unfortunately, this is necessary. I’ve held seats for registrants who neither attended nor canceled, and other people could have taken those seats.
Attend both sessions in full and, at the end of Day 2, you choose: a full refund or apply it toward your contribution. Cancel at least 24 hours before Day 1, and we’ll refund it in full.
No-shows and cancellations with less than 24 hours’ notice forfeit the deposit.