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interview skills development

Success in the world of sports—as a player, coach, manager or agent—invariably requires that an individual engage in innumerable interviews.  For young amateur or semi-pro athletes, team interviews are an important part of making it to the “big time”.  For aspiring coaches and general managers, good job interview skills can mean the difference between a long career and a non-starter.  And, of course, for any individual lucky and talented enough to work in professional sports, media interviews are an unavoidable and important part of the job.

It should surprise no one that, each year, careers are made, and ruined, by both job-related interviews and media interviews.   What should surprise us all, however, is how few members of the sports community are adequately trained to prepare for and engage in interviews in a thoughtful, clear and successful way.

An important part of Prospect’s interview skills development service includes “mock interviews”, but unlike other agencies (which believe that interview skills development is solely a matter of “practice”), Prospect believes that much more goes into becoming a good interviewee.  And, as such, mock interviews are only a single portion of a much larger process.

Interview skills development requires building a knowledge base about the nature of interviews (and the differences between various sorts of interviews, and the significance of the context of each interview).  And, furthermore, interview skills development is intricately tied to issues management, because knowing what one is likely to be asked (and being able to prepare accordingly) is almost always a matter of properly identifying what the interviewing party is likely to consider one’s “issues”.

Prospect’s approach to interview skills development teaches clients to actively and systematically prepare for interviews, rather than “training” clients to simply answer a collection of often-arbitrary practice questions.