Coaching
When it needs judgement, talk to a real person.
For the decisions a measurement should not make for you: interpreting what your results mean, weighing a difficult move, getting your application read properly, or rehearsing the interview with someone who has run them.
How it works
- 1Choose the support
- 2Book a real person
- 3Focused session
- 4Practical next actions
A candidate never pays to speak to a recruiter. Paid sessions are separate services, never tiers or steps — and human input is always attributed to the named practitioner.
Choose the support you need
Current servicesRecruiter conversation
£0
Where you stand, what the market looks like, and what recruiters actually do with an application like yours. Free, now and later.
Expert Career Review
30 min · live
£49
Career Strategy Session
60 min · live
£89
Application Expert Review
Written review
£69
Mock Interview & Feedback
60 min · live
£99
Executive / Senior Session
60 min · live
£149
Fees are confirmed before any work begins. Written feedback lands in your record with the practitioner's name on it.
Free, and always free
A conversation with a recruiter — never a charge.
Where you stand, what the market looks like for the roles you are targeting, and what recruiters actually do with an application like yours. A candidate never pays to speak to a recruiter. There is no charge, now or later, and nothing you can buy changes how that conversation goes. Requests are answered in the order they arrive; when the queue runs long, this is marked as paused rather than left open.
£0
Named by who delivers it
Michelle Stokes is a Recruitment Manager. Neither founder holds a coaching credential, so we do not borrow the title — a recruiter telling you what recruiters do with an application like yours is the more useful thing in any case.
Paid services
Five services, priced individually.
Booked when you need them, whether or not you subscribe.
£49
Expert Career Review
30 min · live
Where you stand, with a practitioner — plus written direction feedback.
You leave with: Written direction feedback
£89
Career Strategy Session
60 min · live
Direction, sequencing and realistic timelines for the move you are weighing.
You leave with: A sequenced plan for the move
£69
Application Expert Review
Written review
Your CV and supporting statement reviewed against a specific role.
You leave with: A written, role-specific review
£99
Mock Interview & Feedback
60 min · live
A real interview against your actual target, run hard and fairly.
You leave with: Written feedback you keep
£149
Executive / Senior Session
60 min · live
Senior practitioner time, scoped to the situation you bring.
You leave with: A scoped way forward
Not sure which?
Tell us the situation — we will point you at the right session, or at the free conversation instead.
IllustrativeFees are confirmed with you before any work begins, and arranged directly rather than by online checkout.
Plus members pay 10% less on paid sessions — a discount on the price, not part of the membership.
Two kinds of help
What the platform does — and what only a person can do.
The platform
Deterministic, always on
- Measures your record against stated requirements
- Same inputs always produce the same result
- Surfaces gaps and the next best action
- Keeps your evidence, history and progress
The person
Named, attributed, accountable
- Weighs the situation behind the numbers
- Says what the measurement cannot see
- Practises the interview with you, live
- Signs their name to every piece of feedback
The boundaries
No progression. No upsell. No score-laundering.
Buying a paid service confers no advantage in any recruiter conversation, and a conversation never moves a score. Human judgement is attributed to the person who gave it — full stop.
- Nothing you say is disclosed to a recruiter or employer by the platform
- Nothing from career profiling is shared with anyone
- Feedback lands in your record with the practitioner's name on it
- You keep everything when the engagement ends
How a session runs
From request to a record you keep.
- 1
Ask
Contact us with the service and the target or situation you want to work on.
- 2
Share what you choose
The practitioner sees the parts of your record you grant access to — nothing else.
- 3
Do the work
Real judgement from a named practitioner, grounded in your actual evidence.
- 4
Keep the outcome
Written feedback stays in your record, attributed by name. Yours permanently.
Where career direction stops
Direction work covers whether a route is for you and what it asks of you. It stops at how to fund it, structure it or run it — anything beyond that line is referred to Smeaton & Co, where the professional indemnity sits.
Working for yourself
Self-employment is one direction a conversation can reach — and the structured measurement behind it (ten enterprise requirements, evidenced / partial / missing) runs on its own, without any conversation.
Measure it first. Then talk, if you want to.
The measurement runs without any conversation — and the conversation is free when you want one.